WordPress Fresh Installation- "500 Internal Server Error"

  • Kohsas

    (@kohsas)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hello There !
    I’m an amateur in WordPress and im facing an issue in the installation of a new wordpress platform for my website on iPage server.

    Here it goes..
    I already have a successful wordpress installation on my iPage account.
    Now im trying to install a brand new wordpress installation on the other folder on my server through the following method
    1. Unziped the wordpress 3.9 package in my hard disk and uploaded the content to my server space through File Zilla
    2. Create a new database on my mySQL database in my iPage account and entered those credentials in the “wp-config-sample.php” file and changed the file name to “wp-config.php”

    And when i go to the url, it shows nothing but “500 Internal Server Error”

    I tried everything including,
    1. Adding a “.htaccess” file to the root
    2. Adding a “php.ini” file to the “wp-admin” folder

    Nothing is working out and I’m on a tight schedule in launching the blog.

    Can somebody please advise on what can be done.

    “Many Thanks in advance

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Error 500 ISE is very generic and can be caused by various problems including server errors.
    – Your first step should be checking your site’s error logs for a more specific error message. If you need help locating them, ask your hosting provider to help you with that.

    User78342324

    (@rune-vantage)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Could you please post your .htaccess file?

    Thread Starter Kohsas

    (@kohsas)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Marc and Tara.. Thanks for your reply..

    My .htaccess file goes like this

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Thread Starter Kohsas

    (@kohsas)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I checked the server error log too.. it goes like this
    —————————
    20140721T025604:
    PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting ‘)’ in /hermes/bosoraweb147/b2019/ipg.cybericonscom/wordpress/wp-includes/load.php on line 440

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