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  • Hi everyone!

    I’m having an identical issue that another user had but it was never resolved (and he ended up installing another solution which worked fine for him). I’ll paste below what I’ve sent to my hosting provider:

    Trying to install wordpress on a new subdomain. backstage.alphashows.com.au

    Follow everything and I get an INTERNAL SERVER ERROR 500

    Usually a server side problem. I’ve scoured the net and the wordpress forums, found a few mentions of the problem and one specific one with h-sphere but the user gave up and used something else, and the h-sphere problem was never resolved.

    see below for link to problem (now a closed topic), my problem is identical:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/213985?replies=9

    The error log says this:

    ALERT – canary mismatch on efree() – heap overflow detected (attacker ‘150.101.223.61’, file ‘/hsphere/local/home2/benjack0/backstage.alphashows.com.au/blog/wp-includes/taxonomy.php’, line 20)
    [Fri Feb 13 07:30:51 2009] [error] [client 150.101.223.61] Premature end of script headers: /hsphere/local/home/benjack0/backstage.alphashows.com.au/blog/wp-admin/install.php

    I’m at a loss. It’s supposed to be simple. I’ve created the config file as I’m supposed to, and thru trial and error I’ve established that I have the correct username password and the correct hostname, it’s just when I put in that mysql database, ie. the correct one, that’s when it gives the internal server error as described in that post above.

    I want to use wordpress rather than anything else because it has an iphone app.

    Thank you 🙂

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  • what’s the version you’re trying to install? Do you use iis server or apache?

    Thread Starter benjackson

    (@benjackson)

    apache, as in it’s a unix account not windows. The latest stable version which i think is 2.7??

    thanks lzjimmy

    Thread Starter benjackson

    (@benjackson)

    so i followed the advice of some other webpages, mainly putting something in my .htaccess file to turn compatibility mode off:

    php_value memory_limit 32M
    php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off

    Make sure there are no OTHER .htaccess files with other things in them in other directories. That stopped it working for me.

    Thread Starter benjackson

    (@benjackson)

    so i followed the advice of some other webpages, mainly putting something in my .htaccess file to turn compatibility mode off:

    php_value memory_limit 32M
    php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off

    Make sure there are no OTHER .htaccess files with other things in them in other directories. That stopped it working for me.

    i’m having severe difficulties in installing my wordpress in my website using h-sphere. i’ve already done all what’s needed even the configuration etc etc etc.

    is there a problem with the control panel or what?

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