Evil 500 Errors
The last few days I’ve been getting some internal server errors while trying to remotely post using either Windows Live Writer (a very awesome new program I am toying with) or BlogDesk.
Right now it mostly just seems to be a problem with posts that contain images. From the mu.wordpress site it appears that others are also having the same problems with posts that contain images.
I have a couple of posts still on schedule, but it is annoying to not be able to queue up some of the other things I have ready and waiting in the wings.
UPDATE
I managed to get an email back form tech support at my host in less than an hour (go team!). It seems the problem is with most host servers defaulting to PHP 4 rather than PHP 5. The fix is also incredibly easy, if you have a .htaccess file you need to add two lines:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
And bam, problem fixed!
As evidence the post directly after this was posted using live writer.
On another note… The line of code the tech support agent gave me caused huge problems… It looks like they omitted the space between php5 and .php – so addtional credit goes to The Code Cave. I was able to check the code I was given against theirs and figure out the problem.
