sanimalp
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Internal server 500 error on Index pagewell, i went through and redid all my plugins, and upgraded nearly all of them. I think the moral of this story is to make sure your plugins are updated.
As a side note, i also discovered that someone was able to change the “permalink” interface settings, and they modified it attempting to do a javascript eval in line with the page load. i think that may also have been responsible for breaking the page, but who knows. it is gone now and i deleted it with extreme prejudice without thought for preserving it as an example of malicious code running around as of WP 2.7.1.
all the junk i could find has been removed. Everything seems to be back to normal.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Internal server 500 error on Index pagewow. so after all that, i simply ripped out all the plugins from my plugin directory in a last ditch attempt at getting the page to work, and guess what. It started working again.
I feel pretty embarrassed about this, but its not surprising that my 3 generations old plugins were causing the issue in some way. I will try to get to the bottom of this issue and post up here what exact plugin and version of the plugin caused the issue.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: email not sendingIf you are hosting your server out of your house, your ip may be part of a blacklist that hotmail, gmail, and others have. This means that email from an ip bank owned by some ISP’s will not be accepted by the services, because of spam issues.
To get around it, you can dowload a plugin called swift-smtp, and then open a gmail account and turn on pop email handling, and then use swift smtp to send through the gmail account.
Since I host my server out of my house, it was the only thing that worked for me. The php mail function worked out of the box for me, but email was getting rejected by the destination smtp server because my ip was on a blacklist.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: email notification (lost password) not workingI was having broader email problems using WP 2.1. no emails were getting through at all. My issue was that my entire ISP has been blacklisted by Hotmail and Gmail.
I solved the problem by downloading a plugin called swift-smtp which allowed me to specify an smtp server as the source of the mail, so it wasnt coming from my ip. I used gmail as my source and it works great.
If your WP blog is hosted, you should contact your host about the issue, so that email is sourced from your site, but if you host your own out of your house, then you may check out that swift-smtp because it makes life much easier.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Registration email not coming through.Are you hosting your own server from your house? If so, your ip is probably part of a blacklist. There isn’t much you can do, except contact your isp and probably pay for a business account.
There is one other option. There is a swift-smtp plugin for wordpress that allows you to configure your emailing system to use a third party smtp server, like gmail or comcast pop mail.
It takes over the emailing system and routes all messages through the smtp server you specify.