If you are getting a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to install PHPLD (PHP Link Directory) version 3 it is most likely because of file permission problems.

When you uploaded your files to your hosting they probably got set with 777 file permissions. This is a security threat, and Hostgator is preventing these files from being exsecuted beacuse of this threat. You need to set certain files to 755 to continue.

You can confirm this by checking you error log in cPanel. From the cPanel front page click 'Error log'. The most recent entries should be at the top. If you have an entry that reads.

error: file is writable by others:

then you need to change the file permissions of this file.  755 is the best option.  

PHPLinkDirectory Internal Server Error - SOLVED

Mark Widawer (not verified) on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 06:25

Your answer was perfect. I had the Internal Server Error when trying to install PHPld -- and it turns out that I do host at HostGator.
I checked my logs and I found this line:
SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory "/home/firstone/public_html/directory/admin" is writeable by group
So, I just changed permissions for that directory to 755 (I use dreamweaver) and refreshed the page.
It worked.
Thanks for the extremely quick solution to my problem.
-Mark

Worked for me as well, on

Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 05:15

Worked for me as well, on the install directory I needed to change it to 755, thanks for posting

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mister zer0 (not verified) on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 10:50

Hi guys i found this tool: http://www.phpldspider.com/

no more problem

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