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1. lovablechelsey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there :) Alright this is kind of messy...

   My wordpress blog is http://bad-behavior.com/blog. My site had been up and running normally for months, when all of the sudden, out of nowhere, I get a 500 Internal Server Error when I try to access my blog. It not only happened to my wordpress blog but also my coppermine gallery located at http://bad-behavior.com/gallery.

   I was running version 2.2, today I tried upgrading to 2.3 by overwriting all files in my /blog directory. However I can't even run the upgrade.php script because it gives me the 500 internal server error.

   I contacted my host about it last week. He said that the problem was my php code, which obviously isn't the case because I reuploaded everything with the v2.3 files.

   Does anybody know what could be causing that error? Is it a database issue? I guess I can try a fresh install of wordpress and then import my old database. But if anybody knows an easier fix or even how it may have happened I would be much appreciative. Thanks!

2. adamrbrown
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Delete your htaccess and see what happens. Your permalinks won't work, but you'll at least know whether this is being caused by an error in htaccess.

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Tell your host he's full of it. Running code rarely throws a 500 error, 500 error is a webserver error. Bad .htaccess or server misconfiguration can do that, php code doesn't generally do that.

4. lovablechelsey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the replies. Yes deleting the .htaccess file was the first thing I tried, didn't work unfortunately. I thought it possibly had something do to with my host upgrading to PHP5? When I ran a phpinfo off my server it said the build date was 9/22/07 or something recent like that, which is around the time this started happening.

   It really has to be something with my host because my friend has a wordpress blog on the same server (http://incognitolatino.com) and it happened to hers also.. but what caused it to happen is whats baffling me.

5. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   May need to up your PHP memory. Usually 16M will do, but might need more...

6. lovablechelsey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just tried upping it to 30M, nothing :(

7. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Got any log files you can check? Believe it or not I read something today on the wp-testers email where the person has PHP memory set to 192M or so to finish an upgrade. Interestingly in that thread, someone describe 32M as 'slim'.

   Thread on wp-testers:
   http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2007-October/005492.html

8. lovablechelsey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   One of my friends managed to fix my blog by using this plugin http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-tuneup/ and since he couldn't activate the plugin in the admin panel (because it would throw a 500 code) he manually activated it in phpmyadmin. Yay for smart, patient and awesome friends!!

   Thanks for all your replies. Now I gotta work on my Coppermine gallery 500 internal server error problem.

9. furiousphotographers
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I am still having trouble with this on my wedding photography website Furious Photographers

   Each time I enable pop-up comment, I hit the error. If I leave it alone, then it is all right. Some people recommended deleting the htaccess file, but I have no idea what that even does. Help? :(

10. torresinc
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    Sometimes it's a plugin you installed does that.
    In my case I installed the "Google Analyticator" plugin and got the error message as soon as I activated.
    Solution: I removed the pluging via FTP and the site went normal.

11. CMedia
    Member
    Posted 9 months ago #

    Try setting your permalink to default.. I think alot of people are having the same issue.I had thgis probelm on one of my databases and I had to remove (Delete althogether) all my plusgions and readd then in. I am having trouble with a second database and may have to do the same there. I think it has somthing to do with a conflict with cacheing methods. I am thinking off the topof my head here having been up all night trying to get the F**ooker working

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