I AM RECEIVING 500 ERROR MESSAGE AFTER UPLOADING FILES, AND TYPING URL
Installation and Configuration
I've seen that happen in the past before too. When you use the trick of:
* upload the .zip file to the cpanel server.
* go into cpanel's "File Manager"
* extract the .zip file.
What happens is the file permissions are preserved from whatever they were in the .zip file.
What you can do (but its a hassle) is to go through each of the files that were extracted and change them to the permissions they are supposed to be set at.
OR, (what I normally would do) is to extract the .zip file on my local machine then upload them via FTP.
What happens is that when you upload them in the extracted form is they get the correct permissions set when they are uploaded to the server.
See if that helps.
--edit--
regarding that error if you _dont_ want to try the FTP method above. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15607300/htaccess-pcfg-openfile-unable-to-check-htaccess-file-ensure-it-is-readable-and
Seams like an owership issue. Try deleting the .htaccess file and uploading a new copy of it via FTP.
updated by @michael: 04/27/14 07:00:22PM