ludo2015

Dear Kmessinger,
Thanks for your reply. The delay in responding to you has been due to a dialogue of the deaf with the host company OVH. After proposing several unfruitful solutions such as altering the .htaccess file, deleting the .htaccess file, changing passwords, they threw in the towel and admitted defeat. Left to my own devices, I decided to go back to square one. I deleted all the WP files via Filezilla and then deleted all the files on the database with phpMyAdmin. I then found an “add a module function” on the host’s Dashboard that directs to an auto setup for WP, Joomla and others. I clicked, it downloaded everything and I’m up and running.
Still no wiser about how I got into the mess in the first place.

Anyway, the problem is solved and I would like to thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards
Ludo

I have cleaned out my database completely (I had originally started with Joomla! but I just couldn’t understand their way of working)and I have reinstalled a new copy of WP.
This has brought me back to my original problem. When I wish to make any changes via the Dashborad I get a spinning circle and when I click on “View Site” I get the HTTP 500 error message.
I’ve checked via Filezilla and phpmyadmin and they inidcate that the WP files are uploaded to the server.

I haven’t been able to find an error log file. Is it in Filezilla, WP or phpmyadmin?

Any ideas please?

Ludo

Thankyou for your answers, Jason and kmessinger.

How does one obtain an error log file?

I have asked my host OVH. I spent 15 minutes waiting for someone to answer the telephone on a premium call line, after having been charged 3 euros to be told that their telephone number has changed.
So a posted a request for assistance 2 days on their site. No reply as yet.
Any ideas what I have configured incorrectly and how does one go back into WP set-up to correct mistakes.

Thanks in advance

Ludo