My wordpress has decided not to work – can anyone help?

If the left side is your host server – it seems to be in the right place.

yuppy!

this is the error I now get in the sidebar ‘latest activity’ and where the wordpress updates go, and if I try to edit/delete anything like comments, or add categories.

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at https://www.twisted-solutions.co.uk Port 80

If I take everything out of the htaccess file, the original error comes up:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/index-extra.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.37 Server at https://www.twisted-solutions.co.uk Port 80

By the way, this happened on another test blog I set up for my boyfriend this evening too… I used fantastico to install it… I don’t think I could provide ANY other information. Except I currently use an older version on my other domain and that works perfectly.

We will need some more knowledgeable helpers here… that know more about .htaccess and the error logs mentioned in the error message.

Let’s hope they will come around.

Hmmm… If somebody tells me how to access the error logs I will give em a look over… is it in the cpanel?

ah ha!

: error: file is writable by others: (/home/twistsol/public_html/wp-admin/index-extra.php)
        [error] [client 66.232.112.194] File does not exist: /home/twistsol/public_html/404.shtml
 [error] [client 66.232.112.194] script not found or unable to stat: /home/twistsol/public_html/form.php
 [error] [client 65.214.45.142] [Mon Oct 22 21:08:21 2007] [alert] [client 82.3.204.206] /home/twistsol/public_html/wp-admin/.htaccess: <IfModule takes one argument, Container for directives based on existance of specified modules
[error] [client 82.3.204.206] File does not exist: /home/twistsol/public_html/500.shtml
[alert] [client 82.3.204.206] /home/twistsol/public_html/wp-admin/.htaccess: <IfModule takes one argument, Container for directives based on existance of specified modules
[alert] [client 82.3.204.206] /home/twistsol/public_html/.htaccess: <IfModule takes one argument, Container for directives based on existance of specified modules
[alert] [client 82.3.204.206] /home/twistsol/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command '\xff\xfe<', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
 [error] [client 82.3.204.206] File does not exist: /home/twistsol/public_html/500.shtml
[alert] [client 82.3.204.206] /home/twistsol/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command '\xff\xfe<', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
 [error] [client 82.3.204.206] File does not exist: /home/twistsol/public_html/500.shtml
 [error] [client 82.3.204.206] Premature end of script headers: /home/twistsol/public_html/wp-admin/index-extra.php

EDIT i tried to compress it a little.

See this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/132667

As you read deeper into it, you’ll see some other .htaccess options you might try.

Thank you very much handysolo, it seems that

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

fixed it, where It wasn’t working yesterday though and I only pasted it in one more time before I gave up… Confused.

Thank you everyone. Your help is appreciated.

Hello,

I had a problem very much related to this. I was following the threads keenly especially from Moshi and linked threads.

I must really appreciate the help. The fixes worked like a charm for me.

Thanks.