How to move a production site to a staging server
Installation and Configuration
So it's getting a 500 error - that means one of 2 things:
- either the Apache configuration for the domain is wrong (i.e. mod_rewrite is not allowed, mod_php is not configured, etc) OR
- there are PHP files missing from the install
Log in via FTP and go to the public_html/data/logs directory and download the "error_log" file - newest entries are at the bottom - that will tell us what the issue is.