From 35697286054aca1ea5ab0e45d180d28b8c882562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:58:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bug 1433633, Internal server error

---
 ChangeLog          |  2 ++
 Documentation.html | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b37ffd1c..cf143d3cd 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ $Source$
     * sql.php: bug #1434576, undefined variable $db
     * libraries/storage_engines.lib.php: bug #1434578, missing argument
       for __construct()
+    * Documentation.html: bug #1433633, document consequences of having
+      a .htaccess file, thanks to Isaac Bennetch 
 
 2006-02-19 Sebastian Mendel <cybot_tm@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/common.lib.php PMA_getUvaCondition():
diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html
index 9b83bbb06..da5a01b00 100755
--- a/Documentation.html
+++ b/Documentation.html
@@ -2510,6 +2510,24 @@ RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
 </pre>
 
+<h4 id="faq1_36">
+	<a href="#faq1_36"> I get an error &quot;500 Internal Server Error&quot;.</a> 
+</h4>
+<p>
+    There can be many explanations to this and a look at your server's
+    error log file might give a clue. Here is a possible explanation.<br />
+    Since version 2.8.0, phpMyAdmin contains a <tt>.htaccess</tt> file
+    inside its main directory. On servers that support the htaccess feature,
+    this file is used to set a PHP behavior that phpMyAdmin relies on;
+    currently, <tt>php_flag session.auto_start 0</tt> is used to ensure
+    that a session is not already active. However, on some servers, usage
+    of <tt>.htaccess</tt> is forbidden, therefore an internal error is 
+    triggered. You can try to remove this <tt>.htaccess</tt> file, hoping
+    that the <tt>session.auto_start</tt> setting is not active on your
+    server.
+</p>
+
+
 <h3 id="faqconfig">Configuration</h3>
 
 <h4 id="faq2_1">