redsetter

Hi thanks to all who helped with this. It was indeed a server security feature. I have posted the resolve emailed to me from my hosting company. Now…a website to build

thanks again

The issue was because Sushosin (a security feature) is enabled which was confliciting with a line of code in admin.php. WordPress version 3 has an ini_set in admin.php which tries to change the php memory allocation, suhosin doesn’t allow this and as a result the server error was displayed.

The solution was to add ini_set to Safe Mode disable_functions in the php configuration which solves the issue while also increasing security. No harm to add the solution to your WordPress forum post as it could help others,

thanks I guess I was just trying to troubleshoot things.

I have put a blank .htaccess file up and I get a server 500 error I have tried playing with all file permissions but still error.

But

If i put up a .htaccess file with the code in it as I have been using above I get no 500 error and the front page (wordpress) loads and loads and loads and loads…..

thanks I just figured that out but I am still stuck.

If I delete the .htaccess file I get to the login page but after that I get

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.

I guess it needs to find the .htaccess file. I have tried uploading a blank notepad plain text called .htaccess with full file permission of 777 and it still just shows the wordpress home page even though I am in admin?

Also referring to the instructions

1. syntax error in htaccess (to check, just rename existing .htaccess to .htaccess1, if error persist then it’s not the .htaccess issue)

I get an error 500 when initially there is no .htaccess file
When I upload one with the code I can login in but am repeatedly shown the front end home page for wordpress

When I change the .htaccess to .htaccess1 on the server I get the error 500 again.

This makes me think it is something in the .htaccess file that is causing the redirect?

Thanks for all the advice so far but I am still at the same place…stuck

The hosting company reinstalled my account with all original files and I did a fresh download of wordpress 3.1 installed in no problems but when I first logged in I got the same results.

(Checked file permissions and the public_html is 750 I am a little nervous to play with file permissions which are automatically set up)

First login =error 500

i check files on ftp (fetch) and cannot see .htaccess (I have the box unchecked to not show files beginning with a period

So I create a .htaccess with notepad plain text no extension using the code

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

Upload this. Login in again and I am shown the front end home page even though the address bar says I am in admin

i check the permissions on this file as I created it realise it is 000 so I change it to 664

If I look up https://www.mysite.com I am shown the index page that comes automatically with the server, not the front end wordpress page which I assume I should see if it is correctly installed.

Am I doing everything correct and are there other possible codes for .htaccess i should be using. And why do I have to create the .htaccess file each time? I am working on a mac but fetch is selected to show hidden files when I select the files to ‘put’

this is becoming a bit of an emergency running out of excuses for client!

many thanks for any help

I just tried adding the RewriteBase but no luck. The .htaccess code is in the public_html folder
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /public_html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I am struggling with this. I am trying to set up a new wordpress site. no upgrades. i have set up the wordpress locally on my computer using MAMP and the 3.1 download worked fine. Now I have installed wordpress on the hosting server I use. This is the schpeel they give about the platform that I chose

“The Linux Web hosting packages offer a feature full development platform based on CentOS Enterprise Linux, Apache Web server and supporting PHP and Perl.

The Linux Hosting plans are served from fully clustered and load balanced state-of-the-art HP DL 380 Dual Xeon servers. Running CentOS Enterprise Linux, the platform offers stability, performance and reliability”

I don’t really know what this all means but after I installed wordpress, then logged in I get redirected to the front end home page. I cannot navigate from this page so cannot install any plugins / fixs. I tried the code hint from @rvirtue: to edit the canonical.php file and that has not done anything. I don’t know what else to do?

Should I just install a previous release of wordpress and if so which version. I want to use the menu feature in the admin and the fullscreen theme by graphpaperpres and the simpleviewer plugin. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.