Internal Server Error 500

Any new entry at all ?
Even “Hi !” ?

That actually worked.

It’s a word (or words) in your entry that is causing this.
Curl is one for doing this as are a number of others.
The only way to try is to try and post and edit various bits out to find the culprits.

It’s part of increased server security, and for blogging there will be ways round.

Most likely your host is using mod_security. Ask your host for their list of restricted terms.

It was because I was making a reference to my .htaccess file. I took out the . and it works fine.

Thank you so much for helping.

If you take off the “.” in the .htaccess file, it won’t work. WordPress will work, but the .htaccess file won’t be running, and it does ReWrites for search engine friendly url’s etc. Is that what you did?

I’m curious for a fix here.

I’ve been installing WordPress on the home page of many many sites and suddenly, after initial install on this last site… I am now getting Internal Server 500 errors. My error log in cpanel seems to point to .htaccess file. I am using the same .htaccess configuration I always use with no previous problems.

If I DELETE what WP has written to the .htaccess file, I can get into the site through WP home page just fine. But the minute I start setting up WPress and hit the save button, I get the darned 500 error again.

Help!!

UPDATE! Well, we are never too old to learn something new.

And today, I just learned that I need to uninstall FrontPage extensions BEFORE I install WordPress. Otherwise, the 500 error problem.

Funny I didn’t have this problem on the other sites at this host. But, It’s working now like a charm.

Hope this helps someone else with the same problem.