Huge Newbie Mistake Please Help

  • Resolved dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I was trying to find a way to post a .zip folder of photos from a formal event that was over 200MB into a post so that we could have parents download them (it’s a website for a school organization) and so I googled a couple of ways to change the annoying 2MB post limit. I found that the plugin WP Htaccess editor would help me do this.

    Well as many of you may’ve guessed I messed with the .htaccess by inserting these two lines of code at the bottom like an idiot.

    php_value upload_max_filesize 300M
    php_value post_max_size 300M

    Now I get a 500 Internal Server Error whenever I try to log in as admin and fix this problem. I’m freaking out because I just broke the website of this school organization that I’m a part of and have no idea how to fix it. I’ve called our hosting service and they said that they would send an email if they were able to fix it. I have yet to receive an email after several hours. I know this was a very dumb mistake and if anybody knows a way to fix this it’d be MUCH appreciated.

    Thanks

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  • Roy

    (@gangleri)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Do you have another way to access that htaccess file other than through the plugin? Like Plesk/Cpanel/PHPmyAdmin or perhaps FTP (make sure to make hidden files visible)?

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t think so. I can’t even get to the Dashboard to check right now because whenever I go to the log in page it gives me the 500 Internal Server error. So I’m not sure where to go from here.

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    http://utsporttkd.com/wp-login

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    You don’t have a control panel of your host or FTP or anything? How was WP installed in the first place then?

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Roy is not talking about the WordPress Admin but about your ISP account control panel, if you are not sure about this contact your ISP support department to help you get file manager access, or FTP.

    Once you are back up and running:
    As you say it is photos for parents then I assume the post is password protected, or the parents have to register to download?

    If you have a look at the plugin wp-download-monitor you can link to a url, so upload the zip through your ISP filemanager or FileZilla (FTP) to the /wp-contents/uploads/ folder on your website, and just link to the file download in the post for the zip file, the browser will then prompt to save the file without the WordPress size limit.

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    How do I change my .htaccess file back to normal once I’ve obtained this information? I’ve downloaded FileZilla.

    Again huge thanks for the help.

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    And thanks with the photo help. That sounds like a much better option once I get the site back up.

    Thanks

    govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    How do I change my .htaccess file back to normal once I’ve obtained this information? I’ve downloaded FileZilla.

    Once you log in using filezilla allow to see the hidden file is on server tab and just rename file to say .htaccess_hold

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Okay, I’ve forced showed hidden files but I don’t see the .htaccess, the only thing I see is access-logs. Is this it?

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I believe I’ve found it within “www”. Would it be advisable to just take out the bit of code that I added in a simple text editor or is there another course of action I should take?

    I tried renaming the file to .htaccess_hold as mentioned above but I still wasn’t able to log into the dashboard.

    I’m sorry I’m very new/bad at this so I’m struggling with every step of this solution. Help is much appreciated.

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Well, I went ahead and took out the offending line of code that I insterted at the bottom in .htaccess file in the “www” folder and the “public_html” folder. I took out the line of code in basic text edit in OSX then closed and saved it.

    Now I’m getting a 404 error when I try to log in and some of the activated theme shows
    http://utsporttkd.com/wp-login

    I’ll wait for responses here before I take any further steps. Thank you.

    glrss

    (@glrss)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    http://utsporttkd.com/wp-login.php is the link you need, as you’ve probably already worked out.

    Thread Starter dan.regueira

    (@danregueira)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Yeah sorry about that, I’ll close this thread. Thanks everyone

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