500 Internal Server Error

I found an old .htaccess file from early January on my hard drive, and uploaded it. Even though I just uploaded it, it still doesn’t appear in my ftp program’s directory listing of what’s on my server, so I guess my server is somehow set up to hide the .htaccess file. How annoying.

Uploading the old file did make a difference, however. Now I’m getting this error when I try to look at my blog (www.amptoons.com/blog):

Warning: main(/home/amptoon/public_html/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/amptoon/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 30

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home/amptoon/public_html/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/amptoon/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 30

So that’s different from a 500 internal server error, at least.

I have been using cuteFTP.

I just downloaded firezilla and looked with that – no dice. .htaccess still doesn’t show up.

Going through cpanel’s file listings, I can finally see the .htaccess files – there was one in the main directory and one in the blog directory. I deleted them both. The one in the main directory didn’t get fully deleted – it still shows up in the cpanel file listing – but it did change to being “0 kb” in size. The one in the blog direcotry is deleted entirely.

Still no change in the error message, however.

Which url should be find these errors on ?

Both on http://www.amptoons.com/blog/wp-login.php and on http://www.amptoons.com/blog/

Both the wp-includes directory, and all of its contents, are already set to 766. (?)

I’m afraid I haven’t got a clue. In what way, exactly, should I alter wp-settings?

Thanks for your help, by the way; I can’t even begin to explain how frustrating this all is. Maybe I should just wipe everything clean and start new? But I don’t even know that doing that would solve the problem….

Here’s the current text to my wp-settings, in case that helps.

<?php
$HTTP_HOST = getenv(‘HTTP_HOST’); /* domain name */
$REMOTE_ADDR = getenv(‘REMOTE_ADDR’); /* visitor’s IP */
$HTTP_USER_AGENT = getenv(‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’); /* visitor’s browser */

// Fix for IIS, which doesn’t set REQUEST_URI
if (! isset($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’])) {
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] = $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’];

// Append the query string if it exists and isn’t null
if (isset($_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’]) && !empty($_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’])) {
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] .= ‘?’ . $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’];
}
}

if ( !(phpversion() >= ‘4.1’) )
die( ‘Your server is running PHP version ‘ . phpversion() . ‘ but WordPress requires at least 4.1’ );

if ( !extension_loaded(‘mysql’) )
die( ‘Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.’ );

function timer_start() {
global $timestart;
$mtime = explode(‘ ‘, microtime() );
$mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0];
$timestart = $mtime;
return true;
}
timer_start();

// Change to E_ALL for development/debugging
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

// For an advanced caching plugin to use, static because you would only want one
if ( defined(‘WP_CACHE’) )
require (ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/advanced-cache.php’);

define(‘WPINC’, ‘wp-includes’);
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/wp-db.php’);

// Table names
$wpdb->posts = $table_prefix . ‘posts’;
$wpdb->users = $table_prefix . ‘users’;
$wpdb->categories = $table_prefix . ‘categories’;
$wpdb->post2cat = $table_prefix . ‘post2cat’;
$wpdb->comments = $table_prefix . ‘comments’;
$wpdb->links = $table_prefix . ‘links’;
$wpdb->linkcategories = $table_prefix . ‘linkcategories’;
$wpdb->options = $table_prefix . ‘options’;
$wpdb->postmeta = $table_prefix . ‘postmeta’;

if ( defined(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’) )
$wpdb->users = CUSTOM_USER_TABLE;

// We’re going to need to keep this around for a few months even though we’re not using it internally

$tableposts = $wpdb->posts;
$tableusers = $wpdb->users;
$tablecategories = $wpdb->categories;
$tablepost2cat = $wpdb->post2cat;
$tablecomments = $wpdb->comments;
$tablelinks = $wpdb->links;
$tablelinkcategories = $wpdb->linkcategories;
$tableoptions = $wpdb->options;
$tablepostmeta = $wpdb->postmeta;

require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/functions.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/default-filters.php’);
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/wp-l10n.php’);

$wpdb->hide_errors();
if ( !update_user_cache() && !strstr($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘install.php’) ) {
if ( strstr($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘wp-admin’) )
$link = ‘install.php’;
else
$link = ‘wp-admin/install.php’;
die(“It doesn’t look like you’ve installed WP yet. Try running install.php.”);
}
$wpdb->show_errors();

require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/functions-formatting.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/functions-post.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/classes.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-functions-general.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-functions-links.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-functions-author.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-functions-post.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-functions-category.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/comment-functions.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/feed-functions.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/links.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/kses.php’);
require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/version.php’);

if (!strstr($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘install.php’) && !strstr($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘wp-admin/import’)) :
// Used to guarantee unique hash cookies
$cookiehash = md5(get_settings(‘siteurl’)); // Remove in 1.4
define(‘COOKIEHASH’, $cookiehash);
endif;

require (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/vars.php’);

do_action(‘core_files_loaded’);

// Check for hacks file if the option is enabled
if (get_settings(‘hack_file’)) {
if (file_exists(ABSPATH . ‘/my-hacks.php’))
require(ABSPATH . ‘/my-hacks.php’);
}

if ( get_settings(‘active_plugins’) ) {
$current_plugins = get_settings(‘active_plugins’);
foreach ($current_plugins as $plugin) {
if (” != $plugin && file_exists(ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/plugins/’ . $plugin))
include_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/plugins/’ . $plugin);
}
}

if ( defined(‘WP_CACHE’) && function_exists(‘wp_cache_postload’) )
wp_cache_postload();

do_action(‘plugins_loaded’);

define(‘TEMPLATEPATH’, get_template_directory());

// Load the default text localization domain.
load_default_textdomain();

// Pull in locale data after loading text domain.
require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/locale.php’);

if ( !get_magic_quotes_gpc() ) {
$_GET = add_magic_quotes($_GET );
$_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST );
$_COOKIE = add_magic_quotes($_COOKIE);
$_SERVER = add_magic_quotes($_SERVER);
}

function shutdown_action_hook() {
do_action(‘shutdown’);
}
register_shutdown_function(‘shutdown_action_hook’);

// Everything is loaded.
do_action(‘init’);
?>