Sub-domain 500 Internal Server Error

  • igendreau

    (@igendreau)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I have a domain and website: http://www.scroll-left.com. I wanted a little site for my basketball team, so I installed wordpress to a sub-directory of scroll-left.com, scroll-left.com/boone. I then pointed a new domain name to that directory: http://www.boonebasketball.com. So if you go to boonebasketball.com, the WP site comes up, and the URL reads “www.boonebasketball.com”.

    However, as soon as you click a link, that all changes. If I click the “Fundraising” link, it now reads “scroll-left.com/boone/fundraising”. That’s not ideal, but is still fine.

    My problem is this. I’d like to be able to send someone to “www.boonebasketball.com/fundraising” and have it come up, but it provides a 500 Internal Server Error when I do. I guess I had it in mind that “www.boonebasketball.com/” equals “www.scroll-left.com/boone/” so it wouldn’t be an issue and went and published something in print with “www.boonebasketball.com/fundraising”.

    Any way to accomplish this? Even creating a static redirect page of some kind would be fine. I just don’t want everyone getting an error. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

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  • Ari Winokur

    (@ariwinokur)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I am guessing that you originally set up the website and created it as http://scroll-left.com/boone. What you need to do is reset the permalinks. Simply go to Settings >> Permalinks in the admin dashboard and resave the same settings. This should resolve your issues. Let us know how that works for you!

    Thread Starter igendreau

    (@igendreau)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I get the same error. I opened my permalink settings. They are set to the “Post Name” option. I hit Save Changes. And still the same error.

    All my permalinks still spell out the “www.scroll-left.com/boone” prefix as well. Any other thoughts? Here is a screen shot of my permalink settings:

    http://scroll-left.com/permalinks.png

    Thread Starter igendreau

    (@igendreau)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I’m guessing this is part of the error… under General settings, my WordPress Address and Site Address are http://scroll-left.com/boone. Can I change that without “breaking” my site?

    JessSnow065

    (@jesssnow065)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    look at your .htaccess file

    Thread Starter igendreau

    (@igendreau)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    This is what my .htaccess file says… I have no idea what to do to fix it, if it’s the problem…

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /boone/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /boone/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Ari Winokur

    (@ariwinokur)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    There is your problem. You need to change the address to boonebasketball.com

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