Testdrive Not Working ... Please Help

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I started working with yii a few months ago. I made the testdrive application and starting playing with it, reading documentation, and trying to learn yii. I took a few weeks off and decided to come back to it yesterday. I tried to create a new application. I created it using the yiic.php tool. It created all the folders and stuff, but it would just return “Http 500 error” to the browser. I worked with it and tried to fix it, but I couldn’t figure it out. I was so frustrated I backe up my computer, wiped the hard dirve, and reinstalled the operating system.

I just downloaded MAMP and yii and ran the yiic.php tool. It created the correct file structure, but when I opened it with the browser it gave me "Http 500 Error". I am losing hair right now, especially since I had no problem doing this the first time a few months ago.

Anybody have any advice on how to move foward? Thanks in advance.

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This would be caused by an Apache configuration issue or a PHP module not installed that Yii is requiring. You will find you answer by looking at you Apache and PHP error logs.

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Thanks for the response. It said that yii.php was not included with the require_once() in the index.php. I am an idiot for not checking the logs. Fixed now, thanks for taking the time to answer dubby.