Can phpinfo cause internal server error?

Help, I may have crashed our server

[phpquestion]

I was reading a tutorial on PHP (Very, Very New) The tutorial said to see if my server had php installed by running the phpinfo script. I'm not sure if I actually uploaded the file, but now when I go to the website there is a server error. Did I cause this?

Gulp!

[Elijah]

I really doubt that you caused the server to crash or anything like that.
It could just be having an internal server error because the PHP file is not valid or something. Why don't you re-check your PHP file and make sure that the file only contains the following:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Do any of the other pages on the server work?

Hope this helps,

Elijah

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, phpquestion.

Elijah has a good point, start simple and work from there. It sounds like you have a CGI installation, can you confirm?