Setting up DVWA : this page is not working

Question

I put a downloaded file from DVWA in /opt/lampp/htdocs and change config.inc.php.dist to config.inc.php but when I open localhost/DVWA this is what shows up:

This page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500

Answer 1

From the spec:

The 500 (Internal Server Error) status code indicates that the server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Since this is the only piece of information you are delivering, some suggestions may be :

1. Check what the error log file says. You can find it in this location /opt/lampp/logs/error_log . You will find more information about the problem there

2. Check this question, I think that your problem is similar to that one, checking it may help you.