I got it solved, thanks for your help Lucas. This was the fix:
yum install php-mbstring I will look again, but I don't recall seeing documentation that says this is what was required. David Roth On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Lucas Webempresa <lu...@webempresa.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > See in the public_html/error_log to see why do you have the error 500. > > Regards > Lucas > > > 2011/12/26 David Roth <davidalanr...@gmail.com> >> >> I've gotten a template from youjoomla.com and while it does install, >> their demo version supplied with .sql files doesn't. I never had this >> happen with Joomla before. However, I can login as admin and access >> everything in the demo version, but the main (front) page won't load >> and display. It comes up with a server 500 error which doesn't make >> sense to me because I have another installation of Joomla 1.7 running >> fine in another directory. >> >> I've not run across this problem before so I thought I would ask here >> to see if anyone has some suggestions what might be the cause of this. >> Again, as admin I can see all the demo data in there and access >> everything there, the site pages just don't work. Thanks! >> >> David Roth >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > > -- > Saludos > Lucas > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php