WP Admin error 500

agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

Hi there,

I somehow screwed up my config, the site responds ok, but admin panel is no longer accessible.

When I request <MyDomainName>/wp-admin, the request is rewrited into :
`http://<MyServerIPAdress>/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F<MyDomainName>%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

And the browser is blank. Audit of requests shows redirec raises html error 500. Also named as Blank Page Of Death, is it?

Could anyone give me a hand please?

Cheers,
Phil

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jassu22
(@jassu22)

9 years ago

It’s a stack over flow

sinip
(@sinip)

9 years ago

Server error 500 and the “white screen of death” are not necessarily the same thing. If you’re getting 500, the details are logged in your error.log file, usually located at your hosting root. You could take a look and post most recent entries.
In the meantime you can try to rename.htaccess to htaccess.old, just to see if that will take care of that redirect problem.

jassu22
(@jassu22)

9 years ago

Go to your database, and find the table called wp-option, then change the wordpress address and site address to mysite.net.

You can also add the following lines of code to the wp-config.php-file

Define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://your-site-url.com’);
Define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://your-site-url.com’);

Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

@jassu22, sinip, thank you.

Here are the configs at the moment :
– wp-config.php https://pastebin.com/pXp7vqYZ
– wp-login.php https://pastebin.com/WxFazbuK

Siteurl and home in wp-option table = http://<MyIPAdress>/

Noting changed with different trials I made to these files. Except now both admin and the actual website are on error 500 …

Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

@sinip, I had tried changing .htaccess name, and reverted to the very standard wp codex version of it. No change.
Still looking for this error.log file but can’t locate it, even with find / -type d -name “error.log”. What could be the cause?
sinip
(@sinip)

9 years ago
Well, as the last resort you can try asking your hosting support about the location of that log file. Hard to guess where it might be because every hosting provider might have own idea about its location.

How about restoring your website from a recent backup if everything else fails?
- This reply was modified 9 years ago by sinip.
Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

@sinip, the server is dedicated, so I have access to the whole directory tree, and the find command should have located for me, isn’t it ?

I’d rather not reinstal the whole thing for now, but yes, I may become an option 🙂
Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago
In fact what should the wp-admin, wp-config, wp-login files, and options table look like : all in “MySiteUrl” form ?

Or : must some of these be in “IPAdress” and others in “MySiteUrl” form ?
- This reply was modified 9 years ago by agilphil.
sinip
(@sinip)

9 years ago

True that. Maybe it is named differently? Anyway, ask your hosting support, you have nothing to lose.

Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

Apache default.conf file has:

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

So, there should be a such error.log somewhere. None.
Do we speak of Apache errors or something else ?

Thread Starter agilphil
(@agilphil)

9 years ago

I’m reinstalling.
Would you have a pointer for accessing the site from http://MyUrl and not http://MyUrl/wordpress please ?

Install directory is /var/www/wordpress

sinip
(@sinip)

9 years ago

Sorry, I’ve lost you here… If you’re asking about the default install directory, it doesn’t have to be /wordpress, you can install it in root, if that’s the only website at your server.