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Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 8,819 Points
Posted by Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 8,819 Points

The localhost page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

I have checked the code everywhere, checked MAMP settings and it is still not working.

another install of wordpress or with another theme it works fine, but with the code I have for now, it just doesnt work. Can someone help me?

4 Answers

Kieran Black
Kieran Black
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Hi Vincent,

An error 500 would imply there is something wrong on the server side, have you looked in the server logs within MAMP?

If you open up terminal and type:

tail -n 20 /Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log

This may give you some clue as to what is going on.

Hope this helps, happy coding :octopus:

KB

Francis Corona
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Francis Corona
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 211 Points

Hello Kieran,

How would you run this in the cmd prompt in windows?

Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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Thank you Kieran, it says [21-Jun-2016 10:27:48 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'function' (T_FUNCTION) in /Applications/MAMP_2016-06-20_14-35-00/Localhost/leleuxportfolio/wp-content/themes/leleux2-portfolio/functions.php on line 3

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Could be just a syntax error, if other themes are working in your wordpress installation.

Could you post your code for us so we can help debug? :-)

Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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Vincent Leleux
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it is working now, it was just a syntax in the opening php code <? php instead of <?php
I learned something, thank you for your support.

Kieran Black
Kieran Black
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Kieran Black
Kieran Black
9,139 Points

Glad its sorted for you Vincent

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