Tinymce causes 500 error message

pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

I have a clean installation without any plugins or configuration yet. When I want to edit the Sample Page with the Visual editor I get a 500 error message on loading the tinymce.min.js file

When I look in the error log I get the following:

Thu Jul 30 16:01:31 2015] [error] [client some ip address] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '",s(t),"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in path-to-wordpress-installation/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tinymce.min.js on line 5, referer: http://www.somedomain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/post.php?post=7&action=edit

The only topic related to my issue was this. I tried the suggestion but that did not work for me…

Can someone help me?

Kind regards,

Pim

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Moderator James Huff
(@macmanx)

10 years, 10 months ago

Which is why keesiemeijer suggested turning *off* PHP short tags, not on.

Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

well as short_tags are on I don’t understand what this can cause this error… sorry I’m too confused atm right now

Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

Oke…. I also tried to set the read/write permissions for the tinymce folder and the folders above but no luck at all

Navigating in the browser to http://www.domain.com/subfolder/wp-includes/js/tinymce/wp-tinymce.php works fine and gives me a minified js file.

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

10 years, 10 months ago

It’s probably the PHP short tags or something wrong on your server. Did you ask your host about this?

Can you post your .htaccess file here.
Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago
This is the htaccess in the subdir:
```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /agenda/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /agenda/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
```
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

10 years, 10 months ago

I don’t see anything wrong with that.

Ask your host if they can turn PHP short tags off.

Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

What difference would that make?
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

10 years, 10 months ago
For one thing, it might solve your problem.

The error occurs in line 5. There you’ll find this:
```
t?r.push("<?",e," ",s(t),"?>"):r.push("<?",e,"?>")
```
Your server tries to parse the lines after “<?” as PHP code.

As this is probably server specific you should ask your host.
Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

jup true but as I said before it it are short opening tags and they are on soo what should solve it in turning it off?

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

10 years, 10 months ago

what should solve it in turning it off?

Your problem 🙂

As I suspect this is server specific you should ask your host if it has anything to do with the server setup.

Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

Well I have contacted my host and they suggest not because it is just a software error. Maybe can you explain me how this should be configured on host level?

Thread Starter pimd1988
(@pimd1988)

10 years, 10 months ago

@keesiemeijer why do you think how this can be host related and not software related?

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

10 years, 10 months ago

Please don’t bump your thread. If you’re not satisfied with the answers you’ve received then the alternative might be to hire someone: http://jobs.wordpress.net

allison_wonderland
(@allison_wonderland)

10 years, 7 months ago

I had exactly the same problem as you, and after almost 4 hours figured out that I had JavaScript files configured to be able to execute PHP by using

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .js

in a local .htaccess file. After I changed this to

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php.js

in the .htaccess file, the problem went away.

Hope this helps,
Allison