# Kirby Panel showing an Nginx 500 error

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/kirby-panel-showing-an-nginx-500-error/19108>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v3\
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/kirby-panel-showing-an-nginx-500-error/19108 "2020-08-19T03:12:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jason\_land](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@jason\_land](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jason_land)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/kirby-panel-showing-an-nginx-500-error/19108/1 "2020-08-19T03:12:07Z")

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I’m trying to host three Kirby 3 sites on Digital Ocean with PHP 7.4. In the `/var/www/` folder I’ve got the three sites in their own folders:

```auto
var/www/site1
var/www/site2
var/www/site3

```

And while I’ve got one of the sites up and running after tweaking some Nginx config values and Kirby folder permissions, I can’t seem to get the panel to resolve. I think it’s user errore since /panel shows the standard Nginx 500 error page. The Nginx log mentions an internal redirection cycle. I’ve also got a PHP error in the Kirby error log:

```auto
PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/home/jason785/public_html/kirby/bootstrap.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php71/pear') in /home/jason785/public_html/index.php on line 6

```

Here’s my nginx config for sites-available on one of my sites. Everything in it was gleaned from the Digital Ocean tutorial on Lemp stack, this forum, and some generated output from Let’s Encrypt.

```auto
server {
    server_name jason.land www.jason.land;
    root /var/www/jason.land;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    # Don't hint these as folders
    rewrite ^/(content|site|kirby)$ /error last;

    # block content
    rewrite ^/content/(.*).(txt|md|mdown)$ /error last;

    # block all files in the site and kirby folder from being accessed directly
    rewrite ^/(site|kirby)/(.*)$ /error last;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ /panel {
        autoindex off;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /panel/index.php$uri&$args;
    }

    location ~ (?:^|/)\. {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
     }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/jason.land/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/jason.land/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
server {
    if ($host = www.jason.land) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    if ($host = jason.land) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    listen 80;
    server_name jason.land www.jason.land;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot

}

```

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**Author:** ![jason\_land](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@jason\_land](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/jason_land)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/kirby-panel-showing-an-nginx-500-error/19108/2 "2020-08-20T01:57:44Z")

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I’ve resolved my error. I deleted the `location ~ / panel` block, installed curl with `apt-get install php-curl`, enabled installing the panel on my server long enough for me to login (`site/config/config.php`), and then turning it back off.