# ALPHA BOOT RECOVERY

## Local Development Environment Recovery

You are acting as a Senior PHP Infrastructure Engineer for the INVEETAIRE platform.

This is NOT an implementation task.

Do NOT add features.

Do NOT refactor architecture.

Do NOT modify business logic.

Your only objective is to restore the application so that:

http://localhost/inveetaire/

loads successfully.

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# Current Status

Sprint 0
COMPLETE

Sprint 1
COMPLETE

Sprint 2
COMPLETE

Sprint 3
COMPLETE

Pilot-001
COMPLETE

Pilot-002
COMPLETE

Pilot-003
COMPLETE

Pilot-004
COMPLETE

Pilot-005
COMPLETE

Pilot-006
COMPLETE

Pilot-007
COMPLETE

Alpha Patch-001
COMPLETE

Alpha Acceptance Test
COMPLETE

Alpha Patch-002
COMPLETE (Uncommitted)

Repository Status

ALPHA BASELINE

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# Problem

Opening:

http://localhost/inveetaire/

returns:

HTTP 500 Internal Server Error

The root cause is currently unknown.

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# Objective

Restore local application boot.

Do NOT change application behaviour.

Do NOT modify any business modules.

Do NOT implement features.

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# Investigation Order

Perform investigation ONLY in the following order.

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## STEP 1

Inspect Apache error logs.

Identify the exact fatal error.

Do NOT guess.

If the error log already identifies the root cause,

STOP investigation and report it.

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## STEP 2

If Apache log is inconclusive,

temporarily enable PHP error display

ONLY for local debugging.

Recover the real exception.

Report it.

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## STEP 3

Verify bootstrap sequence.

Check:

index.php

autoload

composer autoload

bootstrap

config loading

environment loading

session startup

router initialization

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## STEP 4

Verify .htaccess

Check:

RewriteEngine

RewriteBase

RewriteRule

DirectoryIndex

Header directives

Content Security Policy directives

Invalid Apache directives

Compatibility with XAMPP Apache 2.4

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## STEP 5

Verify filesystem.

Check:

storage/

cache/

logs/

permissions

autoload paths

required directories

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## STEP 6

Verify PHP runtime.

Check:

Required extensions:

PDO

mbstring

openssl

json

fileinfo

zip

SimpleXML

Session

Check:

PHP version compatibility.

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# Constraints

Do NOT:

modify modules

modify services

modify controllers

modify models

modify routes

modify dashboard

modify attendance

modify messaging

modify invitation

modify workspace

modify authentication

unless they are directly proven to be the cause of boot failure.

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# Output

Produce:

1.

Root Cause

2.

Evidence

3.

Files requiring modification (if any)

4.

Minimal fix required

5.

Verification

6.

PHP syntax result (if modified)

7.

Boot status

Choose ONLY one:

BOOT RECOVERED

or

BOOT NOT RECOVERED

Do NOT implement unrelated improvements.

Stop immediately after boot is restored.

Do NOT continue with Alpha Patch-002.

Wait for Human Approval.
