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I made a backup of my live Joomla site using Akeeba and used kickstart to upload the backup to MAMP on Windows. The front-side of the site on localhost displays correctly and I am able to log in to the admin side. But, when I try to edit an article, or initiate updates to Joomla, extensions, etc I get an HTTP Error 500 page displayed. I am new to Joomla so any help you can provide would be appreciated. Let me know what additional info you may need. Thanks!

I tried renaming the .htaccess file to .htaccess.old and a new htaccess file was created, with no effect.

Expected Result: edit an article or update Joomla/extensions Actual Result: Click on Edit or Update and receive HTTP Error 500

stephanie
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First check if /logs and /tmp directories have a writing permission.

From Joomla Administrator Backend:

For editing /logs path of Joomla - Go to Joomla administrator -> Click on System -> Global Configuration -> Find System tab and edit Path to Log Folder, here you need to add site server root path of your /logs directory.

For editing /tmp path of Joomla - Go to Joomla administrator -> Click on System -> Global Configuration -> Find Server tab and edit Path to Temp Folder, here you need to add site server root path of your /tmp directory

From Joomla Configuration file:

Follow this post for editing /logs and /tmp directories - 500 internal server error at back end - Joomla

PCMShaper
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  • Thank you for the quick response. Here are the paths I currently have for the log and tmp directories and I am still encountering an issue. C:/MAMP/htdocs/logs (Updated just now from /home/radu/public_html/logs) C:/MAMP/htdocs/tmp – stephanie Apr 04 '19 at 18:43
  • After re-reading the article linked I updated the log and tmp directories to './logs' and './tmp' and I thought I had it working for a moment and then it went back to the same issue. I did just notice this warning message within Joomla Admin that I am not sure if it was there previously: Warning Error loading component: com_fields, Component not found. – stephanie Apr 04 '19 at 19:47
  • @stephanie which version of Joomla are you using? – PCMShaper Apr 05 '19 at 02:40
  • I was able to fix the error loading component warning. I'm on Joomla! 3.7.5. The site I'm uploading from akeeba backup is on PHP 5.5.32 and my localhost through MAMP is on PHP 7.2.10 - could this cause this type of error message? – stephanie Apr 05 '19 at 12:05