Title: 500 Errors Last modified: September 14, 2023 --- # 500 Errors * Resolved [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/) * I am seeing a lot of these 500 errors in my nginx logs. * xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx – – [14/Sep/2023:18:14:46 +0200] “POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/ users/1/inbox HTTP/1.1” **500** 67 “-” “http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.0-nightly. 2023-09-13; +https://mastodon.social/)” * Is that normal ? Everything seems to be working as expected.The page /wp-json/ activitypub/1.0/users/1/inbox is showing JSON. * Thanks. Mark. Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/) * (@pfefferle) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17051572) * Do you see the post body in your logs? * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17051598) * Hey Matthias , thanks for responding , and writing the plugin! * Can you give me an example of what the post body would look like ? * I did just see this entry , which is a 202 , but most are just the single 500 error lines , like above. * xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx – – [14/Sep/2023:19:46:56 +0200] “POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/ users/1/inbox HTTP/1.1” **202** 12 “-” “http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.1.4+nightly- 20230708; +https://mastodon.world/)” * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17055491) * This morning I have removed ActivityPub 1.0 and installed 0.17.0 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/advanced/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/advanced/) * I now see incoming requests getting a 202 error not the 500 error. * Using a Mastodon account on another server I was also able to cancel the follow request and then follow instantly. * Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/) * (@pfefferle) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17055549) * Hmm, thanks for the information! I will investigate why this happens! * Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/) * (@pfefferle) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17055551) * Maybe it is because of the Signature Verification we introduced in 1.0.0. * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17070893) * I’ve just upgraded to version 1.0.1 using the git repository. Now seeing HTTP error code 200 on every request , just like 0.17.0It looks like you fixed whatever was causing my 500 error issues.Thank you!Mark. * Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/) * (@pfefferle) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17070942) * Thanks 🙂 * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17071135) * Looks like I spoke too soon. Now seeing most requests get a 410 error code. * It is weird because sometimes the same server gets different responses. * `176.9.111.120 - - [22/Sep/2023:11:18:44 +0200] "POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/ users/1/inbox HTTP/1.1" 202 12 "-" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.0; +https://mastodon. scot/)" 176.9.111.120 - - [22/Sep/2023:11:18:52 +0200] "POST /wp-json/activitypub/ 1.0/users/1/inbox HTTP/1.1" 410 77 "-" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.0; +https:// mastodon.scot/)"176.9.111.120 - - [22/Sep/2023:11:18:58 +0200] "POST /wp-json/ activitypub/1.0/users/1/inbox HTTP/1.1" 202 12 "-" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.0; +https://mastodon.scot/)" * I’ve rolled back to version 0.17.0 * Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/) * (@pfefferle) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17071210) * That is not an issue per se, because the responses are based on the Actor the server send a request on behalf. So if an Activity is faulty or if the profile of the Actor is not accessible, it might throw errors. The plugin tries to handle faulty profiles/followers and removes them after x errors. * So receiving error codes is not generally a bad thing, it is simply that something with the request on the remote site is faulty or not (or not yet) implemented by the plugin. * We added a lot of 4xx messages in 1.0.1, because the default that WordPress returns if you respond with an WP_Error without a defined Error Code was 500. That’s why you might see some more 4XX errors and no 5XX errors any more. * We did that, to tell the requesting site that the Request couldn’t be processed properly instead of responding with a “500 Internal Server Error”. This way, the Requester will not send a retry, what he might have done by a 500 error. * But we will keep improving the error handling over time. * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17071245) * Thanks for taking the time and writing up the explanation , I really appreciate that. * I will switch back to 1.0.1 and report back. * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17071309) * I was able to un-follow and follow again from a Mastodon account this time. * Thread Starter [Mark Waters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwaters-1/) * (@markwaters-1) * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-errors-15/#post-17091068) * More of the 500 errors were likely caused by using :- * **Captcha by BestWebSoft – Spam Protection, Security Plugin for WordPress Forms** * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/captcha-bws/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/captcha-bws/) * I have now disabled this plugin for comments , and now fediverse comments / replies are working. 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