WordPress is crashing my site!

  • I am running my site, yobeat.com on wordpress and have been for over a year. However recently, I’ve started having repeated 500 Server Errors occur. Since this has happened at least 5 times now, I am able to rectify it quickly by going into the htaccess file and deleting the code wordpress seems to be adding.

    This string ends up repeated over and over (i assume once for every time i update) and eventually it’s too much and it crashes.

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

    So has anyone else had this problem, and if so, is there a way to stop it from happening! thanks.

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  • This string ends up repeated over and over (i assume once for every time i update)

    .htaccess doesn’t update itself. WordPress doesn’t update it unless you instruct it to, and allow it write permission. If something is writing to your .htaccess, you have different problems.

    Start with .htaccess permissions… should be 644. Make sure that file ownership is what you expect it to be as well. Continue on from there.

    Thread Starter yobeat

    (@yobeat)

    Permissions were set to 664. I changed it, hopefully that will solve the problem! thanks

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