I was getting 500 errors after an installation. After surfing some forums I learned that the permissions should be the following (magento/ being your root Magento folder). For some reason, they weren’t necessarily correct by default:
777
- magento/var/.htaccess
- magento/app/etc
- magento/var
- all the directories under magento/media
755
- magento/
- magento/install.php
- magento/index.php
644
- all other files
Hope this helps anyone who may have been in the same situation.
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Thanks – that sorted my problem out after I got 500 error during the ‘installDb’ process.