Header("Location") Causes [500] Internal Server Error

header(location) causes [500] internal server error?

The script continues to execute after your header() call. You need put exit; immediately after it. This shouldn't cause a 500 error, though.

Edit: Evidently this worked - meaning your problem is probably in some related code further down the page?

PHP header() causes internal server error

You are using this :

header('Location', 'index.html');

It is not the way header must be used : the second parameter should be a boolean.

ANd the first one should be the header name + value.

So, in your case, something like this :

header('Location: index.html');

Only one parameter ; and name + ':' + value :-)

There is an example in the documentation :

The second special case is the
"Location:" header.
Not only does it
send this header back to the browser,
but it also returns a REDIRECT (302)
status code to the browser unless some
3xx status code has already been set.

<?php
header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */

/* Make sure that code below does not get executed when we redirect. */
exit;
?>

As a sidenote, if I remember correctly, you should use a FULL absolute URL when using the Location header ; I know using relative URL works in (almost ?) all browsers, but it is not valid, when reading the HTTP RFC, if I recall correctly.

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As a second sidenote (yes, the answer has already been accepted, but maybe it'll be useful anyway, for next time :-) ) : that "INternal Server Error" might indicate your PHP script encountered some kind of error.

In that case, you should check the error_log's file...

...Or activate error_reporting and display_errors to facilitate things -- at least on your development machine.

How to send 500 Internal Server Error error from a PHP script

header($_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 500 Internal Server Error', true, 500);

Server error 500 for header location

Remove the single quotes around the querystring parameter values

header("location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album=".$_GET['album']."&com_id=".$_GET['com_id']."&d_id=".$_GET['d_id']);

Or to make it even easier to read and debug

header("location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album={$_GET['album']}&com_id={$_GET['com_id']}&d_id={$_GET['d_id']}");

And using this sample code from the command line and faking up a $_GET array containing all the required occurances :-

<?php
//header("location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album=".$_GET['album']."&com_id=".$_GET['com_id']."&d_id=".$_GET['d_id']);
$_GET = array('album' => 'aaa', 'com_id'=> 'bbbb', 'd_id'=>'ccc');

echo "location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album=".$_GET['album']."&com_id=".$_GET['com_id']."&d_id=".$_GET['d_id'];
echo PHP_EOL;
echo "location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album={$_GET['album']}&com_id={$_GET['com_id']}&d_id={$_GET['d_id']}";

Generates this putput from either of the above options:-

location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album=aaa&com_id=bbbb&d_id=ccc

location: ../../views/tileesDesign/viewAlbum.php?album=aaa&com_id=bbbb&d_id=ccc

internal server error while navigating php pages

You have an error in your header() function, you are using:

header("location : admin.php");

This will throw the error you're getting because of the extra space between location and the colon. Change it to this (notice the space):

header("Location: admin.php");

.htaccess/.htpasswd 500 Internal Server Error

Most likely problem is this line:

AuthUserFile /.htpasswd 

This line should provide full filesystem path to the password file e.g.

AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd 

To discover your filesystem path, you can create a PHP document containing

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

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