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WordPress 3.0 – Internal Server Error 500

21 June, 2010 | Athan | No Comment

Don’t Panic!

But I did.

I was like saying “Sheeks! I didn’t backed up my blog!” when I got my last WordPress version upgraded to the lastest WordPress 3.0. Who wouldn’t if you’ll get an error 500 to your admin page and to your blog?

Error 500 – Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

Good to know that my brain was working and made some changes to the .htaccess file.

I was checking what PHP version I was using with the WordPress Version 2.9.x I had, and found out that it’s still PHP4. I thought on parsing it to PHP5 and to hopefully work. It did!

On my wordpress folder in my webspace, I added a one line script to parse PHP4 to PHP5. This can be done through your .htaccess file like this as highlighted in line 02.

Line 01, # BEGIN WordPress
Line 02, AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
Line 03, <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Line 04, RewriteEngine On
Line 05, RewriteBase /
Line 06, RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
Line 07, RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Line 08, RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Line 09, </IfModule>
Line 10, # END WordPress

And that should do the trick to run your WordPress 3.0!

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A Quick Guide to Download and Install WAMPServer and Install WordPress through localhost

6 June, 2010 | Athan | 1 Comment

I am writing this brief guide to help a friend. He’d like to test wordpress by himself.

He downloaded wordpress already and told him that it’ll not work if he don’t have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed in his PC.

Below is a simple step by step, enumerated instructions to set this up.

1. Download WAMPServer (Apache, PHP, MySQL on Windows).

2. Save and Run to Install the WAMPServer to your computer.

For intermediate and advance users, they preferably had partitioned their drive and installs the WAMPServer to a dedicated partitioned.

3. Basically, the WAMPServer will be installed as a default to C:/wamp.

4. After the installation, you can type in to your browser http://localhost to browser your local site’s root.

How to install WordPress to your localhost?

1. Download and Unzip the WordPress files.

2. Copy the unzipped files which is the wordpress folder now to C:\wamp\www

3. Browse http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and create a database named wordpress.

4. Browse http://localhost/wordpress/ and follow the simple steps until you will be asked for the database information, to wit;

Database Name : wordpress (the database name you created through phpmyadmin)

User Name : root (default)

Password : (leave this blank)

Database Host : localhost

Table Prefix : wp_ (just leave as default)

5. Just go Submit and follow the next few instructions and your good to go.

I hope this ain’t hard to deal with. Good luck Ernest!

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Hacking the Footer of Xtremeblogg 1.0

14 February, 2010 | Athan | 2 Comments

Ei!..

I read some blogs on SEO experiments that blog footer also plays an important role in link building and pushing your posts on the top page of search engines. You can use the footer of your blog to put optimized keywords and link them to your blog posts.

I took a peek of the footer of my current wordpress theme which is Xtremeblogg 1.0. Well, it was nosebleeding to me to understand those junks! Yes, I can write and read PHP scripts but I am not proficient with all of those functions. I tried to search about eval() and base64_decode(), but I lost my patience. It may take time for me to understand everything about it.

Here is the junk that I mean:

<?php eval(base64_decode(‘Pz4gPCEtLSBiZWdpbiBmb290ZXIgLS0+
DQoNCg0KPGRpdiBzdHlsZT0iY2xlYXI6Ym90aDsiPjwvZGl2Pg0KDQo8ZGl2
IGlkPSJmb290ZXIiPiAmY29weTsgMjAwOCA8YSBocmVmPSI8P3BocCBlY
2hvIGdldF9zZXR0aW5ncygnaG9tZScpOyA/Pi8iPjw/cGhwIGJsb2dpbmZvKCduYW1lJyk7ID8+PC9hPi4gPGEgaHJlZj0ia
HR0cDovL2J1bGtlbWFpbGhlbHAuY29tLyIgdGl0bGU9ImJ1bGsgZW1ha
WwiPkJ1bGsgZW1haWw8L2E+LiA8YSBocmVmPSJodHRwOi8vZW1haWwtc2
VuZGVyLm5ldC8iIHRpdGxlPSJlbWFpbCBzZW5kZXIiPkVtYWlsIHNlbm
RlcjwvYT4NCjxkaXYgaWQ9ImNyZWRpdCI+PC9kaXY+DQo8L2Rpdj4NC
g0KPD9waHAgZG9fYWN0aW9uKCd3cF9mb290ZXInKTsgPz4NCg0K
PC9ib2R5Pg0KPC9odG1sPiA8Pw==’));?>

I tried to made some changes to these junks while reading about it. But to no success.

Why would I complicate things? This stupidity in me tried my simple average knowledge in HTML. And it worked!

I just replaced it with simple code of <div> and added some text to it that I will be putting my keyword links to my blog posts.

Here is a sample code of what I did to my footer.php;

<div id=”footer”>

<a href=”http://www.athanobs.net”>AthanObs.net</a> |
<a href=”http://bulkemailhelp.com”>Bulk Email</a> |
<a href=”http://email-sender.net”>Email Sender</a> |

</div>

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