GoDaddy, htaccess, slow site, permalinks, Help Please!

  • I’ve got a few sites, though some are on WPMU, some are not. The one in question, and the reason I spent 2 hours on the phone with GoDaddy support, is commentary.bensonreport.com.

    The site wouldn’t load at all, just a blank white screen. On the rare occasion that it would load, it would take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load. So GoDaddy said the only thing they could find was that if I renamed the .htaccess file to .htaccessold (which basically disables it) that it would solve the problem. However, that file is in the root, which is not the bensonreport site. My root is sparklogix, the site I have installed with WPMU. By disabling the .htaccess file, it prevents my permalinks from working on my other sites.

    There has to be a better solution than this. Of course, GoDaddy won’t help with that because it’s a third-party thing or whatever. They assume it’s something in the .htaccess file that’s preventing the commentary site from loading. However, I didn’t have this problem until I switched to Linux hosting this weekend. I also switched to a dedicated IP, although I’m still on shared hosting.

    If it will help, here is the .htaccess file, if you can see anything that needs to be fixed in there:

    addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php5
    addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php
    addhandler x-httpd-php-cgi .php4

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

    # END WordPress

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter sparklogix

    (@mybenson)

    I think I’m going to try to install WPMU for this account, and then add commentary as a new blog under MU. I’m just nervous about losing any of the blog (there are over 3,000 posts) so I’ve gone into the PHPadmin and backed up the databases, but I’m still nervous. If this doesn’t solve the problem, then I give up. I would rather have both non-MU sites under one umbrella anyway. Unfortunately, I have to put my efforts towards the MU stuff today because that’s where my income is. Thanks again for all your help with this.

    No problem, was only a brain storming session really, we may not have even touched on the exact problem.

    It’s really hard to say without replicating your setup, and no offense, i’ve no intention of doing that.. ??

    Hope you manage to isolate the problem in any case.. ??

    Thread Starter sparklogix

    (@mybenson)

    No offense taken ??

    Thanks again.

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