Task: Finance Manager - locate application files and identify HTTP 500 root cause
Time: 2026-05-01T12:20:34Z

### STEP 1 — List the contents of /mnt/ext_ssd/html:
Command: ls -la /mnt/ext_ssd/html/
total 1644
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 36864 Mar 25 17:21 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 16384 May  1 12:44 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   384 Apr 30 09:06 .env
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   425 Aug 25  2025 .htaccess
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  8951 Dec 24 22:45 ChangeLog.md
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5369 Nov  8 20:32 GEMINI.md
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Jan 25  2025 System Volume Information
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 57804 Dec 23 17:57 admin.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 25641 Dec 23 22:45 adminCompetitions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 17929 Oct  1  2025 admin_actions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7525 Dec 14 11:39 admin_competition_rostering.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran     0 Nov 11 15:20 agent_data
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  8071 Nov 11 21:43 agent_manager.sh
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Nov 11 12:57 agent_venv
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5828 Oct  1  2025 ai-games-donation_checkout.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7365 Oct  1  2025 ai-games-participate.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3245 Oct  1  2025 ai-games-process_participation.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  8192 Dec 14 21:01 api
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 10727 Dec 23 13:11 attendance.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  8329 Oct  1  2025 bank_details.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 16901 Oct  1  2025 bingo.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9949 Dec 14 18:57 bugs.md
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1202 Oct  1  2025 cancelSubscription.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2490 Oct  1  2025 checkout.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  6787 Oct  1  2025 club-signup.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 23105 Oct 20  2025 clubAttendance.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 40077 Dec 23 23:06 clubEmails.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 23760 Dec 23 22:40 clubFundraising.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 39172 Dec 23 18:47 clubMembership.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2039 Oct 28  2025 clubSettings.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 28997 Dec 23 13:06 coachAttendance.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9760 Dec 23 17:26 coachCompetitions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 34812 Dec 23 13:30 coachs-site.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4582 Oct  1  2025 collection.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 10038 Nov  2 14:10 comingSoon.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 12363 Dec 19 20:46 competitions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 28546 Nov  2 13:55 compliance.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3208 Nov  2 14:00 compliance_coach.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4411 Nov  1 21:00 compliance_qualifications_admin.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4089 Nov  2 13:58 compliance_user.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3873 Nov  1 21:00 compliance_vetting_admin.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   410 Aug 13  2025 composer.json
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 65435 Aug 13  2025 composer.lock
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  6031 Oct 29  2025 connect4.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1346 Feb  5  2025 connect4_game.css
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9060 Feb  3  2025 connect4_with_ai.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5287 Oct  1  2025 continueClubSignup.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4688 Oct  1  2025 createInvoice.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 46983 Dec 19 18:04 dashboard.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3464 Oct 29  2025 db.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   732 Oct  1  2025 deleteEmail.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1264 Oct  1  2025 deleteGame.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4442 Oct  1  2025 donation_checkout.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 36864 Apr  7 20:09 early_access
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 41011 Dec 24 21:39 emails.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 27216 Nov 12 22:26 enterMeet.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran     5 Nov 11 21:48 features.md
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1901 Oct  1  2025 fetchInvoiceData.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1128 Oct  1  2025 fetch_bank_details.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3227 Oct  1  2025 fetch_customers.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2082 Oct  1  2025 fetch_products.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2885 Oct  1  2025 fetch_selected_numbers.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 10491 Dec 18 16:28 fundraising.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 11143 Nov  9 12:21 generate_hytek_entries.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1890 Oct 22  2025 getMeetEvents.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1223 Dec 14 13:25 get_timetable.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2505 Oct  1  2025 gocardlessDetails.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4183 Oct  1  2025 gocardless_payment.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Dec 25  2024 images
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Nov 17 18:32 includes
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran    40 Apr 24 13:28 index.html
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7794 Oct  1  2025 leaderboard.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   834 Oct  1  2025 livesearch-club.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1312 Nov  2 13:46 livesearch-members.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   834 Nov  5 19:57 livesearch.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1487 Nov  9 10:39 livesearchPlusId.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4431 Oct  1  2025 load_presave.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1353 Oct 20  2025 load_session_plan.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9169 Oct  1  2025 login.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Dec 25  2024 logs
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 15203 Oct  1  2025 lotto.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9309 Sep 13  2025 markdown_viewer.html
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 39970 Jun 12  2025 marked.min.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 35419 Nov 11 22:09 meetEntries.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 16179 Oct  1  2025 meetResults.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 12367 Nov  9 12:17 meet_actions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 12986 Dec 18 16:10 membership.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   737 Oct  1  2025 moveToTrash.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9365 Dec 24 22:40 notifications.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 21619 Nov 29  2024 package-lock.json
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5995 Oct  1  2025 participate.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4270 Oct  1  2025 payment_success.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1344 Oct  1  2025 processCoachSignature.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4470 Oct  1  2025 process_bank_details.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5219 Oct 20  2025 process_csv.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2835 Oct 20  2025 process_download_csv.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1568 Oct  1  2025 process_download_excel.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 11601 Oct 20  2025 process_invoice.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  6963 Oct  1  2025 process_participation.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 10483 Dec 14 12:07 process_roster_creation.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   200 Nov 29  2024 publish-body.json
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 11571 Oct 29  2025 raffle.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   740 Oct  1  2025 reportSpam.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1964 Oct  1  2025 report_bug.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2357 Oct  1  2025 report_feature_request.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4071 Dec 22 22:23 reset_pw.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   750 Oct  1  2025 restoreEmail.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7369 Dec 24 22:45 roadmap.md
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9270 Oct  1  2025 runBingo.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1536 Oct  1  2025 runGame.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 13257 Oct 29  2025 runLotto.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 14331 Oct 29  2025 runRaffle.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3722 Nov  3 21:04 saveSelection.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2171 Oct  1  2025 saveSessionPlans.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2718 Oct  1  2025 save_presave.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  3280 Oct  1  2025 save_session.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4020 Oct  1  2025 save_sessions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2388 Nov 26 16:22 script.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2037 Dec 22 22:23 sendEmails.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran    63 Nov 29  2024 service-worker.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  9030 Dec 23 13:13 sessionPlans.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 12985 Dec 24 21:36 signup.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1371 Feb  5  2025 snake_duel.css
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  6949 Jan 29  2025 snake_duel.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7360 Oct 29  2025 snake_duel.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2456 Oct  1  2025 startSubscription.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   640 Nov 11 22:03 step5_note.md
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Apr  7 19:35 stripe-sample-code
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1452 Nov 29  2024 stripe-style.css
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran   949 Oct  1  2025 stripeDetails.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  2606 Oct 27  2025 stripe_invoice_helper.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4459 Oct  1  2025 stripe_payment.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 20981 Dec 14 18:53 style.css
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5946 Nov 11 15:22 test_agent_manager.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  1510 Jan 25  2025 ticTacToe.css
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7091 Jan 25  2025 ticTacToe.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  7036 Oct 29  2025 ticTacToe.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 27636 Dec 18 15:59 timetable.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Oct  1  2025 tutorial
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5876 Oct  1  2025 upload_entries_ajax.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5350 Oct  1  2025 upload_results_ajax.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran     0 Nov  1 20:52 uploads
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 34935 Dec 23 18:28 users.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  4096 Aug 13  2025 vendor
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran 23009 Dec 23 22:49 viewBestTimes.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ciaran ciaran  5708 Nov  3 19:09 viewMeet.php

### STEP 2 — Check Apache error log for the 500:
Primary error log /var/log/httpd/error_log not found or accessible.
Command: find /var/log -name "error*" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -5

No error logs found.

### STEP 3 — Test a direct HTTP request to the app:
Command: curl -v http://localhost/ 2>&1 | head -60
* Host localhost:80 was resolved.
* IPv6: ::1
* IPv4: 127.0.0.1
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0*   Trying [::1]:80...
* Connected to localhost (::1) port 80
* using HTTP/1.x
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> User-Agent: curl/8.15.0
> Accept: */*
> 
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< Date: Fri, 01 May 2026 12:20:35 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.66 (Fedora Linux)
< Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 03:17:37 GMT
< ETag: "21a0-63391c6b09640"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 8608
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< 
{ [8608 bytes data]
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset='utf-8'>
    <meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1'>
    <title>Test Page for the HTTP Server on Ultramarine Linux</title>
    <style type="text/css">
      /*<![CDATA[*/
      
      html {
        height: 100%;
        width: 100%;
      }  
        body {
  background: rgb(60,149,180);
  background: -moz-linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(60,110,180,1) 30%, rgba(60,149,180,1) 90%)  ;
  background: -webkit-linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(60,110,180,1) 30%, rgba(60,149,180,1) 90%) ;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(60,110,180,1) 30%, rgba(60,149,180,1) 90%);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-attachment: fixed;
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr="#3c6eb4",endColorstr="#3c95b4",GradientType=1); 
        color: white;
        font-size: 0.9em;
        font-weight: 400;
        font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
        margin: 0;
        padding: 10em 6em 10em 6em;
        box-sizing: border-box;      
        
      }

   
  h1 {
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0.6em 2em 0.4em;

### STEP 4 — Check PHP is working:
Command: php -r "echo 'PHP OK';"
PHP OK
Command: php --version
PHP 8.4.20 (cli) (built: Apr  8 2026 08:16:38) (NTS gcc aarch64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Built by Fedora Project
Zend Engine v4.4.20, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.4.20, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

### STEP 5 — Check for PHP syntax errors:
Command: find /mnt/ext_ssd/html -name "*.php" | head -10
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/admin.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/adminCompetitions.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/admin_actions.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/admin_competition_rostering.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/ai-games-donation_checkout.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/ai-games-participate.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/ai-games-process_participation.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/api/assignOfficialDuty.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/api/db.php
/mnt/ext_ssd/html/api/db_config.php
index.php not found in /mnt/ext_ssd/html among the first 10 PHP files.