by admin on Sep.28, 2008, under SEO and Online Marketing
Wordpress & iPower Installation Issues
Well, after a gruelling 3 hours of troubleshooting, Google-browsing and lots of pulled-off hair bits on my desk, I managed to get this blog up and running.
The reason was that I kept finding errors (mostly HTTP 500 errors) during my installation.
It seems there were two primary causes due to me installing this Wordpress blog on iPower webhost:
- DB_HOST: apparently ‘localhost’ does not work. Find your correct DB connection by going to your MySQL facility and look for the connection string at the bottom of the DB list.
- CGI: iPower, unlike other webhosts I have experienced, got their CGI to Disabled by default (DUH??). I only noticed this when I was trying to install their supplied Wordpress auto installer (which ironically didn’t work). You will need to set your CGI facility to Enabled, which eventually solved my HTTP 500 errors.
Unfortunately no one seems to realise the #2 above :-/
THAT’S A PRECIOUS 3 HOURS OF MY LIFE I WILL NEVER GET BACK !!!
:500, http, install, ipower, troubleshooting, wordpress
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June 17th, 2009 on 2:52 am
Wordpress & iPower Installation Issues – Solid Thinking great article thank you.
May 17th, 2009 on 1:47 am
Very usefull, Thanks
September 28th, 2008 on 11:56 pm
P.S Like the name… :P
September 28th, 2008 on 11:55 pm
haha, good for you. But for a outsider like me, What is “DB” stand for?
Why so technical terms?