Initial Setup up - 500 error

[xq1xq1xq1]

Unifi Controller version: 8.07
Debian: 11

I have cloned the site to Debian 11 and installed it per README

I copied the config.php file and modified it reflect my unifi controller installation using the user and password that for logging into the web portal and the associated URL

I commented out the composer autoloader line in the list_sites.php file and am using this for my test

// require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

When I try to access the list_sites.php file I get this error:

[19/Dec/2023:15:28:21 -0600] "GET /examples/list_sites.php HTTP/1.1" 500 185 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0"

I enabled DEBUG in my modified config.php but did not get any additional feedback

I assume I am missing something basic or this is not compatible with my version of controller

I did not find any posts with respect to 500 errors on the forum

Ideas on how to troubleshoot?

[malle-pietje]

Your web server error log will tell you more. 500 is a server error

[xq1xq1xq1]

The issue was the the with the wording of the installation section of the main doc

Use [Composer](https://github.com/Art-of-WiFi/UniFi-API-client#composer), [Git](https://github.com/Art-of-WiFi/UniFi-API-client#git) or simply [Download the Release](https://github.com/Art-of-WiFi/UniFi-API-client#download-the-release) to install the API client class.

it seemed like Composer was one option but rather it is a prerequisite

all good now

This can be closed

[xq1xq1xq1]

Once I ran composer it worked

[malle-pietje]

I’ll double check the instructions. Thing is, without composer you have to have an understanding of the relative file paths for the class and the config file.

[powej2]

I'm fairly certain it was my lack of understanding that caused my issue, thanks for working on the