knoxlogic

I too am having the same issue! I have installed my blog on my home machine running IIS7 on Server 2008.

PHP & MySQl is fine, everything works great! I am running the latest version of WP (just downloaded it yesterday). I can download and upload the wp-o-matic plugin just fine, but when I hit the “Activate” button – it refreshes into a “500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR”. The website is still fine, but the admin section is JACKED UP!

So, as soon as I delete it out of the plugins folder, it refreshes back to normal??

Anyclue? Somebody?

Okay, fixed it! I don’t know if this will help anybody but this is what I did.

Within my wwwroot directory, I was told in a tutorial to edit a web.config file or something. What I did was completely delete all files (even that webconfig file) within the wwwroot dir expect the .net asp folder.

I download wordpress and moved fresh copy to the root dir. went into the PHPMYADMIN and dropped the wordpress db for old one. started a new db with new name. edited the wp-config file with proper names.

Installed wordpress and worked! Uploaded my old theme, (which I honestly never tested before) and 500 ERROR!

The ERROR (for me) was my theme! 2 .php files got corrupt somehow. Check you current theme! The blank screen solution is something to do with your browser or the network your on. My site works, but shows up blank when im at work (due to my works network).

SO BLANK is network or browser problem – 500 error could be your theme. Delete your theme and use the default and see if that helps! CODE NEVER CHANGES, ITS CODE! IF IT WORKED BEFORE THEN A FILE SOMEHOW GOT CORRUPT!

GOOD LUCK!

Okay,

I just reinstalled an hour ago – Fresh clean copy of Server 2008, IIS7 role and services, FTP, Remote Desktop, PHP 5 (newest version), MySQL (newest version), and PHPMyAdmin (Newest version).

Installed all the newest versions of everything. Same error!! Everything comes up beautiful, wordpress blog, ip address, domain name, PHPMYADMIN even works great! But when I try and access the WP-ADMIN it 500 errors. That was to be a certain IIS7 config problem?

Any suggestions? People use WP and IIS everyday without problems! They both work together, just have to figure it out.

THANKS! ?? – Ill keep working on it too, If I find out, ill write it!