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.
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? =-.
No, no attack by PUNY HUMANS BOW BEFORE GRODD!!!! — *ahem* sorry about that, what was I saying? Excuse me, it’s time for my afternoon snack. I’m going to see if I can find a banana…
It was clearly Kilg%re.
Ever since Geoff Johns reimagined the Thinker as an AI program, I’ve wanted to see a Thinker vs. Kilg%re battle.
Yes, but The Thinker is the better violinist, so he’s got that goin’ for him. And hats!
.-= Richard Pachter (a/k/a Rockin’ Rich)’s latest blog post: A new look for Grant Morrison? =-.
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