Trying to install 1.7.2 on my site.
When I try to activate I get the following error:
Error 500 - Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.
Tried to install 1.7.1 - same error.
Any Ideas?
Error 500 on activation
(6 posts) (2 voices)-
Hmmm. The usual culprit behind 500-errors is a bad .htaccess file in your host server root directory, but there could also be other causes, such as: "unzip" could be failing or corrupting Wassup; Wordpress' "wp-content/plugins" directory could have incorrect owner permissions or is access protected; or your host server is incorrectly configured.
You can try a manual install of Wassup to see if that works:
-download Wassup package to your PC
-unzip Wassup on your PC (double-click file)
-use "ftp" to upload the "wassup" folder to your wordpress "wp-content/plugins" directory on your host server
-reload Wordpress plugins page in the browser
-activate Wassup.Also, if you have access to your server logs, check that for the source of the error. If you need to change permissions, you should read the codex doc: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions.
Good luck.
-Helene D.
http://techfromhel.webege.comPosted 1 year ago # -
> You can try a manual install of Wassup to see if that works:
> -download Wassup package to your PC
> -unzip Wassup on your PC (double-click file)
> -use "ftp" to upload the "wassup" folder to your wordpress "wp-content/plugins" directory on your host server
> -reload Wordpress plugins page in the browser
> -activate Wassup.That's exactly what I did. The error occurs when I click activate, after all the files are in place. I checked permissions for all folders - all of them are 755 so no problem there. I have few other plugins and none had problems.
The access log shows the activation, but no other info:
99.225.125.239 - - [20/Feb/2010:00:47:37 -0500] "GET /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=wassup%2Fwassup.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&_wpnonce=28ee25c06c HTTP/1.1" 200 645 flexwiz.amosl.com "http://flexwiz.amosl.com/wp-admin/plugins.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.89 Safari/532.5" "-"The .htacess file at the root folder is a wp generated one:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule># END WordPress
looks ok to me.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thanks for providing feedback about your efforts to get Wassup working.
Here are some additional troubleshooting steps you can take to isolate the problem:- Deactivate ALL plugins, then activate Wassup only. If this works, then there is a conflict with another plugin. There are known conflicts with page-based caching plugins.
- Wait a couple minutes after you see the error, then reload the plugins page. If Wassup is now shown as "active", everything is fine. Your PC browser timed out (with an odd error) in the middle of Wassup's activation and the activation process continued, sight unseen. If this is the case, use a different browser or increase your browser timeout parameter. Wassup activation can take a long time on slow or busy servers, especially when tables get very large, and this can result in a timeout in some browsers.
- Examine "wp-config.php" for problems: check for typos, or unusual characters, and white spaces at top or bottom of file; Comment out "WP_CACHE" constant, if it is set.
If none of these help, we will need more info about your setup to figure out what is causing the problem: Wordpress version, PHP version, MySQL version, ISP and hosted account type (Linux|Windows), and plugins installed.Posted 1 year ago #
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