[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] 500 Internal Server Error

Thanks.

No problem, I would love to avoid these issues if I could, but there are limitations unfortunately.

I am new to W3 Total Cache. I wanted to use it because of its great reviews. But on activation of the plug-in, I got the 500 error. I had to manually remove all the files and clean out the htaccess to get things working again. Is there an end to this 500 bug in sight? W3 sounds like a super cache solution, and I’d love to use it.

I just installed it and as soon as I clicked “activate”, my entire site started getting 500 internal server error. Too bad since I have this plugin on another site and love it. Hope the next release with a fix comes soon.

I had this problem but found a work around that some of you might want to try.

I built a site locally then switched to a hosted environment. If you have FTP access to your site then try downloading the plugin to your computer, unpack it, then upload it to your plugins folder. I didn’t have to touch a line of code after that.

While this solution worked for me it still might not with other users.

BTW, Frederick; you guys rock on the WordPress Podcast. I learn so much just listening. Keep up the good work.

[UPDATE]- Ok, so it didn’t work for me. Don’t try this. It’s all about learning new things right guys and gals? Sorry for screwing anybody up.

Hi There –

Can somebody walk me through a manual removal of the files to restore my blog after the “500 error”? I thought I removed all the files associated with W3 and I restored my .htaccess file and yet my blog is still down. I am more than a little freaked out right now….

Thanks!

Hi Fredrick, love your plugin!

I have installed your plug-n on over 6 of my sites all of which are Hosted with the same host company. However, with my latest site (also with the same Host) the minute i Activated the Plug-In the site disappear into Error 500. Now, we know already that it has to do with the .htaccess re-writes, however after spending the day with my Host Company support they couldn’t figure it out.

For some reason once the Plugin is activated it generates the following code which creates the Error 500:

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:css|js)$">
FileETag None
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.1"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$">
FileETag None
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.1"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|swf|tar|tif|tiff|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$">
FileETag None
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.1"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

Full source of .htaccess file which causes 500 error message you may see with name .htaccess_ in your estheticclinique.co.uk domain.
Also let me inform you that FilesMatch directive works perfectly at your server. You may check it using the following example:

<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|css|js|php)$">
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
DefaultLanguage en-US
</FilesMatch>

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It would be great to get some direction as to how do i go about sorting this out.

many thanks.

D.

Hi Fredrick, sorry for the misunderstanding here, do you mean the WP Media upload path? i.e. changing the default “wp-content/uploads” to another path and then Deactivate/Activate the W3Total Cache and reverting the wp-content/uploads?

or something else?

i want to get it right.

thanks.