the usual htaccess fix does not fix 500 error

  • Installed WP 4.8 on XAMPP 5.6.30 on Windows 7. Fresh install, no plugins added or enabled, using default theme (twentyseventeen) with no changes.

    Added a few pages, made two test posts. Set home page to static (“Welcome”) and posts page to ‘News”. No other settings changes.

    Can view the home page. Cannot view posts or other pages – it returns a 500 error.

    Can login to the admin area and do anything except visit the Settings>Permalinks page. As soon as I visit the Permalinks page (I don’t even need to change or save anything), the home page or any admin page returns a 500 error.

    I can fix this error by deleting the contents of .htaccess and saving it as a blank file. I can then refresh the home page or any of the admin pages and continue as above (admin area works except for Permalinks page, and only the home page works on public side). If I visit the Permalinks page, it triggers the 500 error and I need to repeat the fix.

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  • Hi @ciderjack

    Create a new blank .htaccess file(set the permissions to 777 ) and update your permalinks again.

    Go to Admin > Settings > Permalinks and change it to something else and save.

    Then again select your desired settings and save. Hope it will solve your 500 problems.

    Add this Options +FollowSymLinks top of the .htaccess file.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by wbcomdesigns.
    Thread Starter CiderJack

    (@ciderjack)

    Cannot change permalinks. Cannot change .htaccess.

    As soon as I visit the Permalinks page (I don’t even need to change or save anything), the home page or any admin page returns a 500 error.

    I cannot change permalinks. Once I am on the Permalinks page, if I click ‘save’ or navigate to another admin page it returns 500, and if I refresh the home page it returns a 500.

    As soon as I visit the Permalinks page (I don’t even need to change or save anything), the home page or any admin page returns a 500 error.

    This happens with a blank .htaccess. I cannot add anything (e.g. Options +FollowSymLinks) to the .htaccess because as soon as WP generates the .htaccess, the site is broken and I need to delete the .htaccess. There is no point at which I can add anything to .htaccess.

    The usual .htaccess fix does not work here.

    Thread Starter CiderJack

    (@ciderjack)

    update
    still broken

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