Magento 2, fresh install, blank page displayed

[simth65]

Hi,

I am new to Magento and need some installation help.

I have setup CentOS 7 running as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. Have also installed Apache 2.4.6 and PHP 7.0.7 with MySql 5.6.31. Database for magento was also created.

After copying the files of Magento-CE-2.0.7 to /var/www/html/magento, I also did 

           sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/magento     and

           sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/magento

When I tried to access Magento using http://localhost/magento, I get a blank page

or from the VirtualBox Host environment http://virtualmachine-IP/magento, I get HTTP error 500

Both URL have also been verified using http://localhost and http://virtualmachine-IP and both returned the Apache's test page.

Attached image is the result from Apache's error_log -

I hope somebody can offer a solution.

[simth65]

Problem solved!

Case close.

[Francis Kim]

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