Title: Comments not functional
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments not functional

 *  Resolved [mikeduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeduncan/)
 * (@mikeduncan)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/)
 * Hi. I can’t get any comments at all to post at my site at [http://badrhetoric.com/](http://badrhetoric.com/).
   I’m running 2.03 with the DarkPad theme.
 * At first, the form for comments cane up fine, but ended up giving me a 500 internal
   server error when I or anyone else tries to post.
 * I replaced the comments.php file with the file from the default theme, and this
   removed the 500 error, but now when I try to post a comment, the screen just 
   refreshes to [http://www.badrhetoric.com/wp-comments-post.php](http://www.badrhetoric.com/wp-comments-post.php)
   with no change.
 * I looked in the database – there are no comments at all from countless tests.
 * I’ve gone back to the first comments.php file, and now it behaves like the others,
   oddly enough. I’m guessing it’s not a theme issue. I’ve looked through the forums
   but I haven’t found anyone with this precise problem. Thoughts?

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420271)
 * well, it would help immensely for you to turn off the “logged in to comment” 
   option. Not too many are going to want to have to register just to help someone
   🙂
 *  [mariasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mariasha/)
 * (@mariasha)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420272)
 * I have the exact same problem, and it really annoys me.. Don’t even know how 
   it appeared, it just suddenly stopped working.
 *  Thread Starter [mikeduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeduncan/)
 * (@mikeduncan)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420283)
 * Ok, I turned registration off.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420292)
 * _[http://badrhetoric.com/wp-comments-post.php](http://badrhetoric.com/wp-comments-post.php)
   refreshes to your front page_
 * thats not a normal behaviour. You should get a blank page, and it **should not**
   refresh.
 * Do you have the same problem if you switch to the defualt theme? That alone would
   tell me, atleast, that its related to either your permalink structure, which 
   since youre not using pretty permalinks, I dunno, or your site url settings, 
   or a plugin.. perhaps.
 * Are you using ANY mod_rewrite rules? the refresh tells me that possibly wp-comment.
   php is being rewritten to index.php, which would account for the comment processing
   not taking place.
    Narrowing it down to not being a theme issue would be a good
   place to start though.
 *  Thread Starter [mikeduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeduncan/)
 * (@mikeduncan)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420328)
 * I appreciate the help.
 * Switching to default or classic results in exactly the same behavior. The only
   non-standard plugin I use is for quotes, and turning it off does nothing. I’m
   not using any mod_rewrite rules.
 * I do have two domain names, weeklylowdown.com and badrhetoric.com, that point
   to the same place. badrhetoric is the new one. I dunno if that is related or 
   not – the initial 500 error mentioned weeklylowdown instead of badrhetoric.
 *  Thread Starter [mikeduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeduncan/)
 * (@mikeduncan)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420396)
 * Fixed. I figured it out when I looked at the error logs. The permissions on wp-
   comments-post.php were set too libertine, for whatever reason. After I changed
   them to user-only, comments worked fine.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [mikeduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeduncan/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-functional/#post-420396)
 * Status: resolved

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