Hmm, WordPress 2.3 is starting to piss me off, or should I blame the plugins? I don’t know, but all of a sudden my blog started spewing out error 500 “premature end of header: index.php” At first I thought this was a server problem so I waited a few hours. It then just dawned on me that my other websites that run on php are working just fine so it can’t be a global php issue. Then I send a trouble ticket on to my hosting company (http://www.expedioweb.com) and the tech support guy was like “hmm it must be something with the wordpress installation, you just might have to reinstall it”. I said “no way in hell I want to do that..” (I do have backups but what a pain in the ass it is to do that).
Then I get the bright idea to move all my plugins to “test” directory, disable wp-cache and then magically the blog loaded. I then went through each plugins and enabled them one at time. So far so good the blog is working okay, but I still have no clue as to what failed. My guess is that it may have had something to do with the XML Google sitemap plugin taking to long to do its thing (execution time) - just maybe. Realistically I won’t know for sure until the blog fails again.
Sorry folks for this downtime. If you get an error 500 when you try to load this blog then know that WordPress pooped out again. What sucks about this situation is that I already ran the database-upgrade script that came with 2.3 so my db is now 2.3 compliant and I effectively can’t just upload the 2.2 files and expect everything to work as before. I do have backups but I will be losing some posts.
Let’s wait and see what happens.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 pm
What version of the sitemap plugin are you using? If it’s 3.0b9 or below, you need to upgrade:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/135160
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 am
Simon, I’m using the latest official 3.0 release, not beta. I went to that link you posted a while back when I first started having problems with WP 2.3. XML Google sitemap generator was the first plugin I had to upgrade. So, I really still don’t know what cause my blog to poop out, but I can be reasonably sure it was caused by one of my plugins as when I disabled all of them everything started working just fine. Like I’ve said in the post above, I will have to wait and see if it happens again and under what conditions.
Thanks for the comment, much appreciated :)
November 9th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Wordpress makes my life easier and drives me crazy every other day.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
heheh…I love my WordPress :)
November 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
err..I forgot to mention why..Now that I have everything setup the way that I like it I am very content. So far I haven’t had any problems to drive me crazy, and I’m sure I won’t.