Apache2: Internal Server Error with log “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1” 500

Question

My Server is Apache2 on Ubuntu. I did a new server setup. Whenever i am hitting IP address in browser i am getting:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

My Server log file:

[25/Jul/2016:05:53:43 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 500 708 "http://13x.xx.xx.xx/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"

I do not have any favicon link/url in my html. Also it is not going to html page (as i have traced). Even it is not going to my project /index.php file.

If i ping on my local computer command prompt is says:

Reply from 13x.xx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL:56
Reply from 13x.xx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL:56
Reply from 13x.xx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL:56
Reply from 13x.xx.xx.xx: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL:56
Packets: Sent=4 received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss)

Can suggest where i am doing wrong ?

Answer 1

Error Log: .htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

So you have an .htaccess file which is configuring your server to rewrite some URLs, but the module needed to do that hasn't been loaded.

Either:

• Edit the .htaccess file so it doesn't do that or
• Change the server configuration to load mod_rewrite