Whenever I click on a link to a page, or try to preview a page from the editor I get this 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 protected] 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 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache Server at masterysoftware.net Port 80

What do I do?

Are there files that have contents that point to the original installation directory that I need to change? I am stuck and can’t login to the wp admin panel…

Thanks in advance!

However – I had to move the whole wordpress to a new domain (and thus a new installation directory).

PROBLEM: As soon as I moved it, the site won’t come up at all anymore. I get HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error).

Bizareness:
What’s really weird is that if i make a directory level symlink (ln -s original-install-dir-name new-install-dir-name) then suddenly the wordpress (and all 3 subsites) work perfectly on the new domain.

So that means that somewhere, somehow, in some multisite or wordpress config file, the old directory is still hard coded.

What error logs say:

the error_log file in the wordpress install root says:
[03-Jun-2011 23:22:32] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/user/public_html/xxx//wp-includes/class-wp-error.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/user/public_html/xxx/wp-load.php on line 48 ** yes that is a double “//” in the error log, I did notice that as well.

Migration process: Followed the Codex “Moving wordpress directions” for moving multisite (though they are very sparse).

Steps taken to migrate:
– edited the wp-config.php: changed domain – the install dir is not specified in that file at all
– per the Codex, opened database in phpMyAdmin and manually changed wp_options, wp_2_options, wp_3_options, wp_site, wp_site_meta – i think that was it – basically searched for any place where there was the name of the old domain (same as the install dir) and manually replaced those.

Background (probably not relevant, but just in case):
Our production website Ask Dan & Jennifer is made up of 3 wordpress installs. We’re consolidating those into a single WordPress Multisite (directory-based).

However to prevent downtime, made a copy of all files in that wordpress and the whole database, and restored it perfectly under this temporary domain. that worked great. then upgraded to multi-site and imported the 2 other sites as sub-sites. again, all worked perfectly.

Before deploying this to production, I’m doing a test migration of this temp domain to a 2nd temp domain – to be sure there are no problems moving wordpress multisite. glad I did that, since you see the problem I ran into.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Dan

in the auto upgrade dialogue it asks the “host name” do I just use the root domain or include the directory in which WP is installed?

So should host name be

mydoman.com
or
mydomain.com/where-wp-is-installed
?

I have tried in the root but I get an error
“Error: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct.”

Thanks for your help

When I installed my wp one year ago, I put it in the directory, for example: www.mengyer.com/blog/

and copied the index.php and the permanent link file to the root directory (So my website is just my blog)

However, recently I registered an subdomain, ex. blog.mengyer.com (And use my root directory as an welcome page that integrates other pages)

I changed the permanent link as directed by wordpress, but I found that I could not change my wordpress installation directory, which is /blog/. Is there any way that I can change it to my subdomain as well?

I am asking this question primarily because I have a sidebar login in the index page, and since I activated the subdomain, it failed to log me into the Dashboard, and I have to double-login.

Thanks in advance!

Can anyone help me with the steps required to make this work?

I don’t want to have to uninstall and reinstall the blog. Is this possible?

Thanks
J.