Title: 500 Internal Server Error for edit-comments.php
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 500 Internal Server Error for edit-comments.php

 *  [altfgcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altfgcom/)
 * (@altfgcom)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-edit-commentsphp/)
 * Hello,
 * I need help…
 * Trying to make a long story short:
 * We were told to transfer IP addresses from our site’s .htaccess file to our VPS
   server’s firewall.
    Spammers, however, were coming through. Technician from hosting
   company went in and “fixed” the firewall. Site slowed down to a crawl. After 
   hours, technicians managed to fix the speed issue (it’s unclear whether there
   was more firewall tweaking). However, edit-comments.php became inaccessible today
   after I marked as spam a whole series of comments. (edit-comments.php looked “
   weird” while I was working on it. It wasn’t accepting certain requests — e.g.,“
   edit” or “reply” — and it didn’t allow multiple checks, so I had to manually 
   check each box before marking comments as spam. Before the firewall disaster,
   it had been working just fine.)
 * Any ideas re: what could be the issue?
    That would be much appreciated.

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 * [firewall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/firewall/)

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 * Last reply from: [altfgcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altfgcom/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-edit-commentsphp/)
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