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1. olivier-wp-forum
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hi everyone,

   My site is substantially structured around the use of FeedWorldPress, which up until last week was working perfectly well... until it brought the site down with a 500 error. Since then, I have been painfully and laborously trying to find a solution to fix this.

   I first posted this thread but had no luck despite a couple of useful comments. I also found possible solutions on the developer's site here, here, and here; and posted questions here, but it seems that that support forum is not very active and I am still waiting for some answers/pointers :(

   Status is as follows:
   - When FeedWorldPress is activated, the site times out and/or returns a 500. When FeedWorldPress is deactivated, the page loading and rendering go as far as the first <?php if (is_syndicated()) : ?> call is made and stops right there, leaving a partially rendered page.
   - When rechecking wp_options with phpMyAdmin, several 'rss_' files were already created, so FeedWorldPress was still pulling the feeds, but that didn't translate into a displayed feed content.
   - And from my WP admin pages under Posts, I can see all the new posts being registered, logged and indexed.

   So, everything seems to be ticking away well in the background but when activated, the plugin simply brings the whole site down with a time out or a 500 error. I checked the php code with the HTML, but everything looks normal and as per it was when the site was working, as I haven't changed that code at all since all went down.

   I really do not know what to do and where to look at now to make this work again. I am quite anxious now...

   Any help, feedback, pointers, advice... whatever, anything would be more than welcome...

   Many thanks,

   Cheers,

   Olivier

2. kesseret
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Olivier:

   I run a pretty large feed with a large readership and for me uptime is the most important factor. So if I were in your situation I'd troubleshoot like this:
   1. Disable all plugins and switch to the basic theme. What happens? If it works as advertised then I know it's the theme.
   2. If that doesn't work I'd say 'screw it' and just export and backup what I can (using wordpress export and phpmyadmin backup), make sure to get multiple backups (I'm super paranoid due to a past incident). Backup your folders in your public_html (on the hosting- www, htdocs, httpdocs- whatever it is called) and then redo the whole wordpress installation.

   I've done it in under 2 hours myself when under the gun. My database back then was currently about 200MB. I've learned how to trim/maintain it so I don't have to ever import 200MB again. I hope this helps you some in the advice department.
   ----
   In reading your other posts has your hosting provided to you the reason for the 500 error?

   What is the traffic on your blog like? I know I have had to upgrade hosting plans 2 times since Aug due to concurrent mysql connections. (this resulted in an error 500).

   Good luck!

3. olivier-wp-forum
   Member
   Posted 3 days ago #

   Hi Kesseret,

   Thanks for the time to reply to this post. I did all you explained but in the end, nothing I did worked. It took a complete re-install of 2.8.6 to kick-start the whole thing again. It all seems stable at the moment... Fingers crossed :)

   Cheers,

   Olivier

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