Paragraph breaks break my blog

  • liblogger

    (@liblogger)


    20 years ago

    I’ve encountered a problem when trying to post more than one paragraph per post – when I try to post I get an internal server error:

    Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
    Please contact the server administrator, [email] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    There isn’t anything obvious in the error log. The WordPress version is 2.0.2 – it was installed by my hosting company, and I don’t really know what to look for in terms of missing files.

    The problem wasn’t occuring this morning, and for all I know, it might be the server, but it seems odd that it should only affect posts when I write more than one paragraph. The only change I made after the last post that accepted multiple paragraphs was adding a number of authors – the same problem affects them, and also the comments.

    Hopefully this is something simple, but I’d really appreciate any help you can offer.

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    20 years ago

    It’s a word.
    Something called ‘mod_security’ (a good thing) thinks a word in your post is actually code.

    Starting from a known good point, paste in sentence by sentence and publish after each edit. You will soon find the offending sentence and from that the word.
    Known bad ones include perl, curl, lynx

    Thread Starter liblogger

    (@liblogger)

    20 years ago

    Hi – I noticed that when I was searching the forums here, and wasn’t sure it applied to this version.

    I’ve tried testing various simple posts, and it really does only seem to affect me when I start a new paragraph – when I post one paragraph, it’s not rejected, but try to post that paragraph twice in the same post, and it all goes horribly wrong, regardless of the content.

    Looking at the html view of the post doesn’t show anything untoward – is the

    <br />
    combination affecting wordpress in the same way?

    Thread Starter liblogger

    (@liblogger)

    20 years ago

    Sorry, I was trying to show the closing and opening paragraph tags there…

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    20 years ago

    Then read the instructions below the text input area: code snippets in between backticks: `

    Thread Starter liblogger

    (@liblogger)

    20 years ago

    so it should have been:

    …is the
    </p>
    <p>
    combination affecting WordPress…

    (Which, admittedly, doesn’t seem likely)

    Thanks…

    Thread Starter liblogger

    (@liblogger)

    20 years ago

    [sighs]

    So, I decided to cut my loses and reinstall WordPress myself, rather than using the script installer on cpanel, and it seems to be working OK.

    However, I’d really appreciate a few pointers about how start looking for the source of this (seemingly obscure) – I’d like to work out how to deal with it if it comes back, rather than taking up space on the support forum.

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