# 500 error when installing the Advanced Hero Component
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 24, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642 "2025-10-24T12:07:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/1 "2025-10-24T12:07:17Z")
Tried to install via button or manually, keep getting 500 errors or it redirects me to 404 on our website. Is it just me?
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### Author:  [@gilles](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gilles)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/2 "2025-10-24T12:12:35Z")
Hello, for my part I had no problem installing the component.
If you install the component manually with the repository
> **[GitHub - thebestgoodguy/vibecommit-hero: Discourse Hero Component](https://github.com/thebestgoodguy/vibecommit-hero)**
>
> Discourse Hero Component
Does that not work?
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/3 "2025-10-24T12:47:38Z")
Tried on 3.4 and 3.5.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/4 "2025-10-24T13:22:35Z")
I just tried installing it and it worked, without the error you see. Are you using the correct URL to the github repo? Should be
```
https://github.com/thebestgoodguy/vibecommit-hero.git
```
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/5 "2025-10-24T13:49:59Z")
It might be due to your Discourse version and the fact that when the versatile banner component was adopted, the compatibility file was not cleared. I suspect that the commit specified there for your version cannot be found in the current repository because it belongs to the versatile banner.
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/6 "2025-10-24T13:54:49Z")
The .git at the end of the URL is what fixed it! Thank you!
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/7 "2025-10-24T13:57:14Z")
lol nevermind, this is what I ended up with:
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/8 "2025-10-24T14:09:17Z")
Looks like you created a new theme. You’d need to select “from a git repository”. But I guess that will fail
> [@Installing a theme or theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-a-theme-or-theme-component/63682/1):
>
> 
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/9 "2025-10-24T14:12:34Z")
I also just tried it again without the .git at the end, and it still works on my end.
So yes looks like Moin may be on the right track with her advice. Have you updated your site to latest? Do you have another component already installed that is conflicting?
The error handling is fairly attrocious here - would be nice if a better error message could be shown! 🙃 Can you check if more/better info about what is going wrong is appearing in the javascript console?
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/10 "2025-10-24T14:24:33Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
>
> So yes looks like Moin may be on the right track with her advice. Have you updated your site to latest? Do you have another component already installed that is conflicting?
Yes I tried on our staging where we have 3.5. Perhaps it’s the versatile banner we have that’s causing conflict. Either way, thank you everyone for help.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/11 "2025-10-24T14:35:34Z")
Let us know if that works. I will shift this to a new #Support topic so we can tie it off.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/13 "2025-10-26T23:24:46Z")
There is an error in `.discourse-compatibility`
```plaintext
< 3.6.0.beta1-dev: 9f248e18b35e4cf599e35a871e9348957077e7c6
```
That commit does not exist so it does not install on 3.5.1 stable.
That’s what happens when you “fork” something but throw away all git history.
(EDIT I see that’s basically what @moin said)
> [@Moin](#):
>
> It might be due to your Discourse version and the fact that when the versatile banner component was adopted, the compatibility file was not cleared. I suspect that the commit specified there for your version cannot be found in the current repository because it belongs to the versatile banner.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/500-error-when-installing-the-advanced-hero-component/386642/14 "2025-11-25T23:25:10Z")
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