I was doing my daily tasks in OOW today when I suddenly hit a sudden 500 internal server error. Instantly out-of-warranty.com was down and could no longer be accessed. At first I thought that it was a server-side (godaddy) problem, but after doing some research I found out that it obviously wasn’t! I checked on my files using filezilla and looked for my htaccess file. I opened it — and to my surprise seems that it has been altered! By then I immediately edited it to the correct wordpress htaccess file and imposed a 605 chmod on it. Unsurprisingly, it fixed it.
Wordpress htaccess file content in text:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule># END WordPress
500 Internal Server Error may be caused by various factors. But most of the time it is your httaccess file that is causing the error. Check on it first and proceed to other methods of troubleshooting 500 internal server error.
Thanks for the article. This fixed my issue with Godaddy hosting when I moved a site from my development server to a Godaddy Linux server.
Thank you for your comment. I am glad I was able to help.