500 Error on 2.5 Comments

  • When trying to leave comments in a new 2.5 installation, it directs me to a HTTP 500 error.

    Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

    a) Switch to default theme to make sure it’s not theme-related. Still doesn’t work.

    b) Deleted .HTACCESS, recreated, and used default permalink structure to make sure it’s not permalink related. No dice.

    c) Re-installed WP 2.5 fresh with default theme and default permalink structure. Still nothing.

    Very puzzling situation as I have a few other 2.5 installs on the same host that dont have this problem. Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter chewru

    (@chewru)

    okay — i’ve narrowed the problem down a bit. perhaps someone can now help!

    there are three fields on the default comment form, right?

    Name
    Mail
    Website

    it will WORK ONLY IF each field is properly used, ie:

    Name: Bob
    Mail: [email protected]
    Website: https://www.bob.com
    Result: Comment posts.

    it will NOT WORK WHEN each field is NOT properly used:

    Name: Bob
    Mail: Bob
    Website: Bob
    Result: HTTP 500 Error

    it will NOT WORK WHEN ANY of the fields are blank:

    Name: Bob
    Mail: (Blank)
    Website: (Blank)
    Result: HTTP 500 Error

    This seems to be some kind of coding issue? .. Any ideas or patches?

    Do you have WP-SpamFree installed? Then try uncheck the “Include “Website” field”. Works for me.

    Cheers.

    Gastly Gem…

    What version of WP-SpamFree are you using? I am running 1.7.2 and it doesn’t seem to affect it one way or the other.

    Updated WP-SpamFree from 1.7.2 to 1.9.6.1 to see if it changed anything.. No go.

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