title: Joomla 2.5 : Error 500 : Internal Server Error
body: <p>I have website already and wanted to do many changes in website. So I took the akeeba backup and created site locally.</p>
  
  <p>When I created website, I got error as <code>Internal Server Error</code>. To solve that error I removed whatever was there in .htaccess file. Now website is working locally, however administrator is not working.</p>
  
  <p>I followed the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8225027/500-internal-server-error-at-back-end-joomla">answer of same question</a>, however it is not working.</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Can anyone point, where I am going wrong? I need this to be done anyhow.</em></strong></p>
  
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  <h2>Edit 1</h2>
  
  <p>Below is what I have in <code>apache_error.log</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>[Thu Nov 29 10:22:34 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
  [Thu Nov 29 10:22:34 2012] [notice] Digest: done
  [Thu Nov 29 10:22:34 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Thu Nov 29 10:23:29 2012] [error] [client ::1] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /home5/smartkwc/public_html/administrator/.htpasswd
  [Thu Nov 29 11:02:33 2012] [error] [client ::1] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /home5/smartkwc/public_html/administrator/.htpasswd
  [Thu Nov 29 11:03:28 2012] [error] [client ::1] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /home5/smartkwc/public_html/administrator/.htpasswd
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