blog is online – but unable to log in to edit or post – internal server error

  • My blog is online and working fine at the front end, but I am unable to log in, via /wp-admin/ or the wp-login.php page.

    I get the following error message:

    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 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache/1.3.37 Server at https://www.vivmcwaters.com.au Port 80

    I searched this support forum, and have tried the following fix:
    // status_header($status); // This causes problems on IIS
    I changed the file: pluggable.php so that there is // at the start of the line.

    I am still getting the error and am unable to access the dashboard etc or login.

    I have checked the server log and am getting the following error:

    [Sun Aug 19 19:23:04 2007] [error] [client 203.214.44.138] File does not exist: /home/beyondth/public_html/500.shtml
    [Sun Aug 19 19:23:04 2007] [error] [client 203.214.44.138] Premature end of script headers: /home/beyondth/public_html/wp-admin/index.php

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea what could have gone wrong.
    hope to hear from someone soon, thanks
    Melissa

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  • [Sun Aug 19 19:23:04 2007] [error] [client 203.214.44.138] File does not exist: /home/beyondth/public_html/500.shtml

    That is the error message that your server comes up with because it is set to look for a page in your site called 500.shtml to show if there is an internal server error. You don’t particularly need to worry about it unless you want to show your own error instead of the default.

    [Sun Aug 19 19:23:04 2007] [error] [client 203.214.44.138] Premature end of script headers: /home/beyondth/public_html/wp-admin/index.php

    That means that something in your wp-admin/index.php page or one of the files that it calls is badly formed and crashing out. Could be corrupt file, could be that you’ve recently enable a plugin that just has a single blank line in its file outside of the PHP code that is flushing headers before it should, or it could be an internal error somewhere in the code, or a permissions issue.

    Unfortunately the Premature end of script message covers a lot.

    Have you changed something recently?

    Thread Starter lissmcf

    (@lissmcf)

    thanks for your reply. No I have not changed anything, there is one other person who posts to the blog, and she first noted the problem, and it is possible that she altered something in the admin area, without being aware of it.

    I have continued to search through posts here and noticed some people posting about plugins. I renamed the plugins folder and the problem was unchanged – front end of the blog stayed online, but I still can’t login at all.

    hope you may have some ideas, thanks

    searched this support forum, and have tried the following fix:
    // status_header($status); // This causes problems on IIS
    I changed the file: pluggable.php so that there is // at the start of the line.

    I think you need to undo those changes and check again, without plugins. Firstly because you’re not running on IIS you’re running on Apache, and secondly because you may have introduced the premature end of headers error by leaving a blank line or similar in one of the php files.

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