Comments on: How to fix – Error 500 – Internal server error

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:01:43 +0000

Thanks. I added your solution to my post regarding this issue. I have had this issue on and off with one of my wordpress domains on 1&1 added the php mod as you had it here and that seems to work too – for now. [http://mikemartinezonline.com/blog]

By: A USER

A USER — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:00:24 +0000

IT’S WORKING I DO NOT BELIVE IT.
YOU;RE COOL

By: Shashi

Shashi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:53:20 +0000

Thank u so much…

Its working fine…..

By: Kopi Tribulusdynamic

Kopi Tribulusdynamic — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:14:13 +0000

Thanks, this worked for me…but in a roundabout way…I was just ggetting 500 errors on my modules page,when it wouldn’t load.

By: Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:59:27 +0000

Hey!

Thanks so much for posting this – worked perfectly!!! You saved me hours!

By: Balu

Balu — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:39:15 +0000

Hi Lee,
I just came across your blog coz i am really bugged up with the 500 internal server error while i am editing and updating my post some on my blog through the admin panel.I am currently running on WP 2.7.1 and i have upgraded it from 2.3 very recently.I used my previous datas in my database and upgraded the database using the admin panel of wordpress.I have done the php.ini config stuff as you said but still i am experiencing the same error.i have checked whether it is an issue with my theme by reverting back to the default still the error is popping up.What should i do now?

By: Lee Jones

Lee Jones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:26:22 +0000

GREAT!

Just let me know if you need any more help

By: dc

dc — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:41:49 +0000

You are so right. I don’t know anything about the .htacess file, so I hadn’t taken a good look at the file thinking that I wouldn’t know what I was looking at anyway. But today as I was getting ready to close notepad that had a copy of the file on it, I happened to glance at it and saw it repeated the same thing over and over, except for one part, and when I googled that one part, I couldn’t find any information on it(i’m pretty sure there was something not right about that code. The syntax looked amiss.), so I took a look at a working .htacess file from another site of mine that is setup similarly to this one and noticed that all it had was the code that mine kept repeating…..but only had it once and didn’t have the other part at all. So I used that .htacess code for this site, too, and it is working now…or seems to be. I haven’t noticed it rewriting the file anymore.

I still have no idea how it got this way. I have never edited that file before today. I didn’t even know where it was until it started messing up last night. I’m keeping an eye on it for a while just to make sure everything is working ok..

Thank you so much for helping me to “stop the bleeding” until I could get the code fixed.

By: Lee Jones

Lee Jones — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:20:57 +0000

Your very welcome,

Just be aware that this was just a last resort solution to your problem, and not the fix.

There is something writing to your .htaccess file, which may be required to allow correct function within your wordpress or something else related to your server, and should you notice strange things happening (or not working correctly) then just keep this in mind and try changing the permissions back to 755.

Obviously , then you’ll need to examine what the changes are to the .htaccess to try and fix the problem………… anyway, I’m glad to have been of help and that it now works for you !

By: dc

dc — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:50:36 +0000

Thank you so much! So far that is working. I have no idea why it kept changing or what was writing to it. It was changing just from viewing the site without even changing anything on my end. It’s a brand new site. I don’t even think google has picked it up yet. I’m just not sure if this was a wordpress issue, plugin issue or a hack.

Thank you so much.