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Probably same problem here, getting the 503 error when trying to refresh or upload to my blog using MarsEdit. Interestingly enough, when I try to upload an entry with several photos, the first one is uploaded just fine and then I get the 503.

I run my 3.6 on a 1&1 server. Tried reinstalling 3.6, disabling all plugins, adding mod_security exceptions to the .htaccess, nothing helped so far.

Haven’t found a solution yet, but I’m thinking that it might be a problem with 1&1 settings, in recent years this problem seems to have been solvable by disabling mod_security via the .htaccess file, but that doesn’t work for me.

Help would be appreciated.

You have to update the password in your wp_config.php, of course. But I don’t know which WordPress version you need to run php4.3, mine was already updated to the most recent WP version. It never hurts though to run a current version ??

Problem solved: update your mySQL-database password, update the new password into your wp-config.php, wait a few minutes and done! Hope that works for you as well!

Apparently php5.4 can’t handle database passwords created pre mySQL 4.1, though I’m just paraphrasing here: https://community.webfaction.com/questions/8063/php-54-and-wordpress-error-establishing-a-database-connection

Same problem here, moving back to 5.2 via the 1&1 panel helped, but it’s only a temporary option. However I couldn’t identifiy the cause yet. Deleting all my plugins didn’t help, neither did switching to the standard theme. I didn’t try a reinstall. Any ideas?