Question

I’m trying to install and configure Symfony2 on my server.
My website is on a shared hosting plateform therefore have limited access to root level, apache & php.ini files…

I downloaded then extracted symfony2 files on my dev environment:

 www/
 dev/
     symfony/
              app/
              bin/
              web/
              ...

When I navigate to http://dev.mydomain.com/symfony/web/config.php I get some recommendations:

1. Install and enable a PHP accelerator like APC (highly recommended).
2. Upgrade your intl extension with a newer ICU version (4+).
3. Set short_open_tag to off in php.ini*.
4. Set magic_quotes_gpc to off in php.ini*.

Being on a shared hosting plateform I’m not allowed to modify/download the necessary files to fix those recommendations (which I believe shouldn’t block the install).

I follow the link “Bypass configuration and go to the Welcome page” which sends me to http://dev.mydomain.com/symfony/web/app_dev.php/

The server throws a 500 Internal Server Error.

Any advice on how to fix that issue would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

John

Answer 1

When it happened to me I forgot to tell my FTP client to transfer also invisible file (.htaccess) OR permissions on /web folder are not correct