Latest version 500 error distaster

  • facter

    (@facter)


    10 years ago

    I upgraded to the latest version of WP yesterday, and from there Ive had a sleepless night of hell.

    I am getting a 500 error … and there is no solution in sight.

    I have done the following things

    – edited config and made sure my memory was set to 256 (nothing)
    – renames my plugins folder completely to disable all plugins (nothing)
    – renamed my themes folder to try and use another theme (nothing, no change), also updated theme (I am using the smartscreen theme, it was one iteration behind ut I have also tried with the updated theme (only a .01 iteration so nthing huge).

    – I used total cache .. so I also removed in the entirety the WT3C plugin and all caching diretories/objects/configs … removed all cache as well as associated files/directories etc
    – renamed htaccess file to reset … when I do this, instead of a 500 error I then get a 503 error (I also tried to make a new .htaccess file added in the following – no result). When I manually also edit the old htaccess and manually remove all references to total cache, I then get the 503 error also

    # BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

    – set debug in the config .. this does nothing and doesn’t display any errors, not even in the log *i set up a error.log file with 666 permissions in the wp-content folder, nothing is being written to). I dont know what is happening here as the errors dont even dispaly – Ive used the following

    /** debugging */
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);

    Seriously have tried almost everything and csnt work out what is going on.

    Please does anyon have any suggestions? All was well until I upgraded to the latest version and I cant even get errors to display to hunt it down …

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    try MANUAL updating. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old copies of files & folder on your server before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first.
    – If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong.

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    don’t panic! it’s a server error code. read through this article and if the solutions here don’t help then contact your hosting and tell them that you’re getting a 500 error, it might be that their server environment needs tweaking.

    https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-internal-server-error-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter facter

    (@facter)

    Jack – I tried all of those, as per my initial post, I actually had used that page as one of the references for troubleshooting – none of the fixes worked. I cant even get the errors to log properly.

    Tara, manual update is my next move as nothing else seems to work. Feels like a bit of a radical solution for an issue that has sprung out of nowhere and has so many fixes it could be … ugh.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    Did you look at the server error log? (not WP debug) or ask your host?

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