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I recently installed Joomla 3.x on Heliohost using Softaculous and it works, but when I go to the location I installed it, I see a directory listing rather than index.php automatically being used as the homepage.

 

http://tstewart.heli...org/joomlaSite/

 

On my main site I have modified .htaccess to use Home.aspx as the DirectoryIndex, but when I do this to the htaccess file in the joomlaSite directory:

 

DirectoryIndex index.php

 

I get this error

 

Internal Server Error

 

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@tstewart.heliohost.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

Am I making a mistake here? I am not too familiar with htaccess files.

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I get the 500 error when visiting http://tstewart.heliohost.org/joomlaSite/index.php directly. This means it is an issue with index.php. Your .htaccess file should work fine. Look for a file named error_log in public_html/joomlaSite. That should give a clue to the issue.

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