Error 500 error and cannot edit my Posts (after 2.7 install)

Resolved webswift
(@webswift)

15 years, 2 months ago

Hi All,

I’ve just completed an upgrade from 2.6.5 to 2.7. Most everything works but I can’t see a list of my old posts. I get an Internal 500 Error (please try again later). Also I am still seeing a message – WordPress 2.7 is available! Please update now – even though in the Dashboard it shows that I am running 2.7

Funny thing, after the install – I didn’t even see anything in the Dashboard (left Pane).

I did everything according to the install instructions for an upgrade – deleted the old wp-admin and wp-include folders. Then deleted all the php files in the site root and manually created a new wp-config.php. I ran the upgrade.php and everything looked to be ok. However, the site is working but I can’t see my old posts. I can however look at the Pages defined in my site.

Anyone have a clue what I should try next?

Thanks.

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Thread Starter webswift
(@webswift)

15 years, 2 months ago

Hello again,

It seems that no one is monitoring this forum or did every skip over this post! The first problem with the upgrade message is gone – I didn’t do anything.

However, what mostly concerns me is that I can’t edit any posts. As soon as I click on the Edit posts function I will mostly just get a blank screen – I think it’s known as the “white screen of death”.

Also when I try to save something, a new post for example I sometimes get the Error 500 message.

If no one can help me, can someone please tell me how I can “Officially” report this to WordPress. I am not a newbie when it comes to systems and I have tried everything I can think of.

Thanks!

Samuel B
(@samboll)

15 years, 2 months ago

There is nothing to report – this isn’t a bug.

You need to make sure all of /wp-admin files are there

If you are getting blank screens that is indicative of php issues or low php memory – you can ask host to bump memory to 32M and look at your host’s error logs for a clue.

Thread Starter webswift
(@webswift)

15 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I have already installed the entire /wp-admin directory (twice now) and everything seems to be there. I’ve also confirmed with phpinfo() that there appears to be enough memory – “memory-limit” is set to “40M”. Additionally, “error_log” is set to “no value” so it would seem errors aren’t being logged.

I would be grateful for any other suggestions. This is annoying me. Oh yeah, the server is running PHP Version 4.4.9 and MSQL client API version of “5.0.67”.

Thanks.

Samuel B
(@samboll)

15 years, 2 months ago

is there any way you can run php 5.x.x ?

Thread Starter webswift
(@webswift)

15 years, 2 months ago

I can put in a support ticket. However they’re one of the largest providers in Germany (1 & 1 Internet) and I’m not sure they would upgrade just for me.

It’s worth a shot though, thanks! I’ll repost if anything transpires.

Thread Starter webswift
(@webswift)

15 years, 2 months ago

OK, I am happy to report that under PHP 5.2.8 everything is working well know.

My provider already had PHP5 on the server but all PHP calls were being automatically handled by PHP4.

I learned that the inclusion of the following two lines at the beginning of your .htaccess file in your blog’s root directory solved the problem.

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Cheers, and thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Perhaps this info could be added to a FAQ somewhere.

ubrayj02
(@ubrayj02)

15 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for posting this fix. I hadn’t changed anything on my site in months, running WP 2.6, and this Internal Server Error popped up today. I did a bit of Googling and found this post.

I copied and pasted the code above into my .htaccess file and it got rid of the error.

Thanks!

MikeTek
(@miketek)

14 years, 11 months ago

Just wanted to add my thanks for adding the above code to this thread – I’ve been getting 500 errors since I upgraded. Now I’m free and clear. Cheers!

panthur
(@panthur)

14 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for posting this, this fixed the same problem I had when upgrading to 2.8. The edit posts page came up but none of the posts did. Kudos!

gourmeted
(@gourmeted)

14 years, 9 months ago

Thank you so much for posting this and the fix! I upgraded to 2.8 and short of pulling my hair out. This solved my Error 500 – Internal Server Error problem.

jeffwiththejams
(@jeffwiththejams)

14 years, 3 months ago

I’m working with 2.9, hosted on 1&1. When I upped the number of posts per page in the Edit Posts, up popped Error 500…which I had never seen before…and just couldn’t get rid of, though everything else worked.

Thanks Webswift for those 2 lines of code! Worked like a champ!