I updated 3 websites with 4.0 a couple of days ago and had the 500 Internal Server Error message on all sites which seemed to come and go.
2 sites are now fine but one (the most important of course) seems to have “crashed”. When I try to login to wp-admin I get a message to repair wp-config.php file by adding define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);
I’ve done that and over-written file on server. No change.
The following code is in the file repair.php and Microsoft expression Web is highlighting the code $_GET as being an error.
Is this the problem? It’s rather troubling to say the least especially as I’m not an expert, just a gifted amateur!!!
if ( ! defined( ‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’ ) ) {
echo ‘<p>’ . __( ‘To allow use of this page to automatically repair database problems, please add the following line to your wp-config.php file. Once this line is added to your config, reload this page.’ ) . “</p><p>define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);</p>”;
} elseif ( isset( $_GET[‘repair’] ) ) {
$optimize = 2 == $_GET[‘repair’];
Ah, ha. Now I clicked another button and have been told to key the following information into support in the hope that someone can help.
wp_usermeta: 2 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_posts: 1 client is using or hasn’t closed the table properly
wp_options: Table is marked as crashed
wp_postmeta: 2 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_term_taxonomy: 1 client is using or hasn’t closed the table properly
wp_term_relationships: 1 client is using or hasn’t closed the table properly
SORTED – ALL DONE BY SOME AMAZING TECHNOLOGY!!! YIPEEEE
mine hasn’t been sorted yet 🙁 someone?
Jelenaskopje. OK download the wp-config.php file, add the string
define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);
and then upload the new wp-config.php file overwriting the one that’s there already.
Return to the browser page where you got the message to amend the file.
Then you click on something (sorry I can’t remember what) and you get 2 buttons. Click the first one. I think it says Repair.
This is not obvious. I only discovered this button after returning 3 times to the browser page.
You then get a screen that shows the problem. It suggests you enter the information into a support forum. I didn’t need to do this really.
Just sit tight and wait. For me it was repaired.
Finally you get a message asking you to delete the string
define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);
from the wp-config.php file. So do that and upload again. That’s just for security.
Hope this works for you.
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