While installing Magento when you done with uploading your Magento files to your host and about to make the Installation you come up with 500 Internal Server Error.
This error is bacause of the inappropriate file permissions. For this if you are on cpanel hosting, Error Log will really help solving/fixing this error.
Normally changing the file permission on index.php file solved this problem. If you check the error log you will find “/index.php” is writeable by group
So using CHMOD in Linux change the file permission on index file from 664 to …