[wp-testers] 500 Server Error when posting

Paleo Pat tpblogeditor at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 20:09:46 GMT 2008


where do these settings go?


-Paleo Pat
http://www.politicalbyline.com





On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just edited and updated posts on both of my sites (both running
> 2.7-beta-9948) with no problems or hangs. Time from hitting the "Update
> Post" button to complete (editor page fully reloads) slightly less than 7
> secs. I couldn't duplicate what your seeing (but I tried).
>
> Load during post editing and updating around 2.15 to 2.46 (average load on
> my 4 CPU shared server).
> I'm on a Bluehost shared server. Resources set as follows:
>
> max_execution_time = 30
> max_input_time = 60
> memory_limit = 32M
>
> *Server operating system:* Linux
> *Current version of PHP:* PHP 5.2.6
> *Current version of MySQL:* MySQL 5.0.67-community
> *Webserver software:* Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) PHP/5.2.6 mod_ssl/2.2.9
> OpenSSL 0.9.8i mod_fastcgi
>
>
>
> On 11/29/2008 1:07 PM, DJ Allyn wrote:
>>
>> This just started after the WordPress 2.7-beta3-9948 upgrade.
>>
>> When I go to post or edit a post, everything will hang there for about two
>> minutes and then I get the eeeevil 500 server error message.
>>
>> When I go look at the page, the entry has actually posted or edited.
>>
>> I did the usual:  disabled plugins, manually deleted and reinstalled WP
>> 2.7,
>> and still I get the same 500 server error.
>>
>> When I went backwards to WP 2.6.5 the problem went away.
>>
>> I am on DreamHost Private Server, and currently run a guaranteed *304
>> MB*memory (burstable to
>> *608 MB)*.  I tried upping the resources to *535 MB* memory (burstable to
>> *985
>> MB)* to see if that changed anything, and it didn't.  My average memory is
>> running steady at *255 MB* and the server load averages 0.08 over five
>> minutes.
>>
>> *Server operating system:* Linux
>> *Current version of PHP:* PHP 5.2.6
>> *Current version of MySQL:* MySQL 5.0.45-log
>> *Webserver software:* Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) PHP/5.2.6 mod_ssl/2.2.9
>> OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_fastcgi/2.4.6
>>
>> I have another domain on the same server with the exact same theme and
>> plugins running WordPress 2.7-beta3-9909 and it is working just fine.
>> Ironically, the one working fine gets 1000 times the traffic the other one
>> does.
>>
>> I had a similar issue with an installation on a Hosting Matters server the
>> other day.  I installed WP 2.7 beta3 and it worked fine for about two
>> hours
>> before the server overloaded and locked out.  That site averages about 10k
>> hits a day, and is on a dedicated server running the following
>> configuration:
>>
>> *Server operating system:* Linux
>> *Current version of PHP:* PHP 4.4.7
>> *Current version of MySQL:* MySQL 4.1.22-standard
>> *Webserver software:* Apache
>>
>> When I replaced WP 2.7 for WP 2.6.5 the loads went from 233.85 back down
>> to
>> 0.88.  Yesterday I re-installed WP 2.7 to the Hosting Matters server and
>> the
>> same issue cropped up again.
>>
>> I hope I gave you enough information to work with...
>>
>>
>
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