ELGG install 500 error

[hoxxer]

Ive recently tried to install ELGG onto my hosting account but when i rename htaccess-dist to .htaccess i get a 500 error, you can see this in action at http://www.tendice.co.uk/egg

i was woundering if it is anything ive done wrong or is it the hosting account type of the php version.
i have already upgraded to v2 php. does it need me to be v3?
or does the free account not hold the requirements needed to install this script?

thanks for any help,
Hox.

[galaxyAbstractor]

Try chmodd all your files to 755. That would make it.

[hoxxer]

im still getting a 500 error with all the files and folders 0755.
hmmm...

[galaxyAbstractor]

What did you writte in your .htaccess??

[hoxxer]

its the default .htaccess file with the install...

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # ugly ugly hack to detect missing mod_rewrite
    # RedirectMatch must be to an absolute destination, so forces 500 error...
    ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Apache does not have mod_rewrite loaded. Please check your apache setup."
    RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

<Files "htaccess-dist">
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
</Files>

Options +FollowSymLinks

# Whether to display PHP error messages in page output. Recommended to be off for production systems.
# Messages will be logged to Apache's error log regardless.
#php_flag display_errors on

# PHP defaults to allowing file uploads of max 2MB, below is example option for 5MB.
# NB: Adjusting value may not work, depending on other configured php and apache limits.
# for more info see http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#limitrequestbody
# post_max_size should be slightly larger than upload_max_filesize, but the default is usually 8MB anyway.
php_value post_max_size 8388608
php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880

# Elgg can be more of a RAM lover than PHP's default of 8 meg. E.g. 16 meg:
php_value memory_limit 16777216

# Not really necessary, just to be clean
#php_flag short_open_tag off
# Forgot that anyone might still have this turned on
#php_flag register_globals off

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /home/hoxxer/public_html/egg/

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need 
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
#RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^_templates/css/(.+)$ _templates/css.php?template=$1

RewriteRule ^(.+)\/rssstyles.xsl$ _rss/styles.php?rssurl=$1&url=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/dashboard(\/)?$ mod/adash/index.php?user=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/profile(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/tags(\/)?$ search/personaltags.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=profile
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ profile/rss2.php?profile_name=$1&tag=$2

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/?$ _rss/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/?$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/?$ _rss/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/?$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2


RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/?$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/edit$ mod/blog/edit.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/edit\/([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/edit.php?profile_name=$1&weblog_post_id=$2&action=edit
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/?$ mod/blog/archive.php?weblog_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/blog/archive_month.php?weblog_name=$1&year=$2&month=$3
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/?$ mod/blog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/?$ mod/blog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html$ mod/blog/view_post.php?post=$1
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\/trackback\/?$ mod/trackback/index.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html.([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/view_post.php?post=$1&commentpage=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ mod/blog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=is
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rssnot\/(.+)\/?$ mod/blog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=not
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=weblog
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/?$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/skip=([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2&weblog_offset=$3
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone$ mod/blog/everyone.php
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone\/(people|communities|commented|uncommented)$ mod/blog/everyone.php?filter=$1
ReWriteRule ^weblog\/everyone\/skip/([0-9]+)$ mod/blog/everyone.php?weblog_offset=$1

RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)\/?$ search/all.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^rsstag\/(.+)\/?$ search/rss.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)/ecl\/?$ search/ecl.php?tag=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/friends\/?$ _friends/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/foaf\/?$ _friends/foaf.php?friends_name=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/?$ mod/community/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/owned$ mod/community/owned.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/new$ mod/community/new.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/delete$ mod/community/index.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:delete
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests\/aprove\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:approve:request&request_id=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/requests\/decline\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/requests.php?profile_name=$1&action=community:decline:request&request_id=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/members$ mod/community/members.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/community\/separate\/([0-9]+)$ mod/community/members.php?profile_name=$1&friend_id=$2&action=separate
RewriteRule ^community\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/communities/community.php?community_id=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/?$ mod/file/index.php?files_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9]+)\/?$ mod/file/index.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9\-]+)\/([0-9]+)\/(.+)$ mod/file/download.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2&filename=$4&id=$3
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=files
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ mod/file/rss2.php?files_name=$1&tag=$2
RewriteRule ^_icon\/file/([-0-9]+)$ mod/file/icon.php?id=$1

RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3&constraint2=$4&size2=$5

# Some blogging clients probe Wordpress or MoveableType endpoints,
# redirect them to the Elgg xml-rpc endpoint
#
RewriteRule xml-rpc.php _rpc/RPC2.php
RewriteRule mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi _rpc/RPC2.php

</IfModule>

[galaxyAbstractor]

Maybe x10 aren't allowing Modrewrite? That is the most common message to get if modrewrite isn't allowed.

[deshan.ala65]

nah i think you need to enable the RewriteBase /
to do this, remove the comment ('#') infront of the RewriteBase / statement