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!Friendica Support Hi. I upgraded from 2024.12 to 2026.01. Database updated started and when it is finished just nothing displayed on the site. I then figured to copy over the old .htaccess file, now the site works. But but when I click on my profile and then on "Administration" to get to the admin panel, I get an error 500 "internal server configuration problem". How to fix this? Thanks a lot in advance.
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Jools

@Tobias Ernst I had this problem on one of my servers when I switched from 2024.12 to RC.

In my case, it was add-ons that weren't working properly, e.g. syntax highlighting in combination with another third-party add-on.

When I deactivated syntax highlighting and the third-party add-on, I was able to access the admin area again without any problems.

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Tobias Ernst

@Jools Interesting theory. I did not have many addons enabled. Now after the updated bin/console addon list all gives me an empty list. I think I rather missed something when performing the upgrade. I basically unpacked the distribution into a new directory, copied over the config directory and .htaccess (file storage is some other mount point, database is somewhere else), renamed the directories. Maybe I should have copied something more or did something else?
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@Michael 🇺🇦 In my previos installation I had a subdirectory log and a friendica.log therein for which I had enabled logging. In the new subdirectory with 2026.02, there is no such subdirectory. I think I am missing a lot of stuff, something with my update went wrong, I just don't know what it is. Now since I cannot get to admin panel, I cannot enable logging, or is it possible via console?
In apache, I see the access to /admin in the access.log, but I do not see anything in error.log. (The error.log as such works, I see other errors there, but it does not get an error when I try to access the admin panel and get the 500).
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Tobias Ernst

@Michael 🇺🇦 I apprciate your continued support but I am still at at a loss.
I have now pulled the stable friendica and addons from git and run composer.phar. For some reason, the latter required me to create /var/www/.cache and give write-permissions to www-data before it would work (my site sites in /var/www/html/friendica). As you see the instance is back running, I now see my addons (and have disabled them all for the time being). But I still get the 500 when trying to go to the admin panel.

How specifically do I use bin/console config to elicit a php error log in which I can see what is going on?

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