Hello, I have been having some trouble figuring out a problem with my site. I have a custom cms that writes added content to a file on the same server. This system works flawlessly on one server (my remote testing server), but when I moved it to the production server then I get a 500 server error any time I submit new data from the cms (the information still gets written though). Does anyone know what might be causing this? Sorry if this is in the wrong section btw. I couldn't decide where else to put it.
did you write the cms yourself? if you did, i would ask you to explain a bit further as far as the 500 error. is it not finding the added written content, or is it not finding the place to add the written content? Only reason I ask is because i had this same problem the day before yesterday. I was using swfupload in conjunction with the dojox filetree. swfupload returns an object to the page if possible. if there's something wrong with the data, instead of throwing an error to a javascript hndler for error output, it would just return a 500 or a 404 which was not really a server error(as they are supposed to be) - it was a script error. And the script worked perfectly fine on my test server. Would absolutely not work on the production server. I actually ended up having to do a complete folder replacement. My application is working, but even after a few hours of debugging, I still do not know why it threw the error the other day. One thing i'm not too familiar with yet is character encoding. My philosophy of K.I.S.S. falls short here. Sometimes you can have the wrong DOCTYPE or META crap in the header and it makes things buggy. Other times there are certain files that must be uploaded by the FTP in a specific format. You'd probably know more about than i do. Just my 2cents. Sorry if it didn't help.
500 internal server error means server encountered error processing a request. i would suggest using the HttpFox firefox plugin to get more details on the error.