Title: 500 Internal Server Error for wp-comments-post.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 500 Internal Server Error for wp-comments-post.php

 *  [digitaldokuro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaldokuro/)
 * (@digitaldokuro)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-wp-comments-postphp/)
 * Hi, when I try to post comments on my blog, i get a 500 Internal Server Error.
   It does not do this on my local instance, and it only does this when posting 
   without being logged in.
 * I didn’t want users to have to create an account just to post a comment, so I
   turned off “Anyone can register” and “Users must be registered and logged in 
   to comment” in Settings->General. I then turned on the moderation options under
   Settings->Discussion (approving a comment before it is actually displayed).
 * Like I said, it works on my local instance, just not on the actual server. Tried
   switching themes to the default, but that didn’t seem to work either. I don’t
   have an .htaccess file, so I don’t think that would be causing any problems. 
   Have the permissions on all of my wp-* files set to 644.
 * Any ideas? Thanks

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 *  [mrmcreynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmcreynolds/)
 * (@mrmcreynolds)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-wp-comments-postphp/#post-776778)
 * I’m having the same issues… What is the fix?
 *  Thread Starter [digitaldokuro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaldokuro/)
 * (@digitaldokuro)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-wp-comments-postphp/#post-776804)
 * i ended up having to do a clean install. here’s what i did:
 * 1. exported a backup from wordpress
    2. deleted my database 3. deleted my wordpress
   installation 4. created a database with the same name as the old one 5. reinstalled
   wordpress 6. imported my backup
 * after that, it all magically worked. i’m guessing something got corrupted in 
   the db, or the upgrade went wrong.

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 * [wp-comments-post.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-comments-post-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [digitaldokuro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaldokuro/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-for-wp-comments-postphp/#post-776804)
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