January 25, 2009

We’re Baaack!

Category: Site News — By Kelson @ 11:42 pm

I apologize to those who’ve tried to visit the site this weekend and couldn’t see it. Apparently when I upgraded one of my plugins (WP Super-Cache, which normally improves performance on the site), it tried to enable a feature on the server that it didn’t have permission to turn on. Whenever it tried to load a page from the cache, it would run into the permissions problem and show a “500 Internal Server Error” page.

Of course, since I was always logged in when I looked at the site, it never tried to load the page from the cache, so I never saw the error. I even made a few posts.

Reminder to self: When updating plugins, always test the site both while logged in and while not logged in!

Technical details: The .htaccess file in the wp-content/cache folder didn’t have permission to turn on expiration (the error in Apache’s logs was “ExpiresActive not allowed here”). Solution: add “AllowOverride Indexes” to the folder’s area in the server configuration.

6 Responses to “We’re Baaack!”

  1. Whew! Thought maybe Grodd had gotten ya, Kelson.

    .-= Richard Pachter (a/k/a Rockin’ Rich)’s latest blog post: A new look for Grant Morrison? =-.

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  1. [...] Hi readers, over the weekend I decided to get all technical and install WP Super-Cache to speed up the site and make it a little less resource intensive…. thing is I didn’t check my logs, which if I had would have shown that to non logged in users you would have seen an “Error 500″ rather than http://www.masterblanker.com. Oops ! If you get this after you have installed this plugin check your Apache error logs. If you see “/wp-content/cache/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here” add “AllowOverride Indexes” to your apache config. My thanks go to Speedforce.org and their post here [...]

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