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1. jul3s
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   My blog is running on the latest version of Wordpress (2.8.4).

   I noticed last night that both my homepage (http://www.hellagood.de) and the corresponding login-page are blank all of a sudden. I looked into my stats and noticed that the site stopped registering visits on Thursday.

   Here's the thing, I was away from my computer on Thursday and Friday, so I don't think I could have done anything to cause this? The last time I updated plugins was Tuesday. I have tried deleting both of these from the plugins-directory to no avail. I also deleted my current theme, but both pages still remain blank.

   Trying to auto-post via Posterous resulted in a "HTTP-Error: 500 Internal Server Error"

   I hate to say this, but please help me! I don't even know where I could start trying to fix this. It seems like it might be a server-related issue, but other directories on the server, including my Mint-installation, are still accessible. And I just can't understand why Wordpress now returns a blank page, despite me not changing anything about the installation.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated!

   Thanks,
   Julia

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Something croaked on your server. Check your .htaccess via FTP for the standard WP rewrite block:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>

   And 500 server errors often are from bad .htaccess files: bad character encoding, line endings, etc.

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