TLDR: Do I need a working htaccess file? Or can you just rename it (so it isn't doing anything) and everything will be fine?
A couple days ago my forum broke and started producing a 500 error every time anyone posted. Posting still works, they would just have to hit back, and then refresh. Annoying.
My host was very little help (Hostgator) as to if they changed anything that caused the issue, but they had announced a planned php update some time before, so maybe that took effect. They suggested renaming the htaccess, so that's what we did, and just like that no more 500 error.
Can I just leave it like that? My understanding is that the htaccesss does set some potentially needed configurations. Will it cause issues for other users? Is there any way to tell what it was setting that didn't work? I could disable lines of it individually, I suppose?
Hostgator's server error logging seemed to also not really be working, so I had nothing useful to learn from that.
I am running phpBB 3.3.3, if that changes anything (can't update it because of incompatibilities with the theme). EDIT: I checked and apparently I can upgrade to 3.3.11 now. I may well do that. Above question still applies though, as I don't think it would change anything.
A couple days ago my forum broke and started producing a 500 error every time anyone posted. Posting still works, they would just have to hit back, and then refresh. Annoying.
My host was very little help (Hostgator) as to if they changed anything that caused the issue, but they had announced a planned php update some time before, so maybe that took effect. They suggested renaming the htaccess, so that's what we did, and just like that no more 500 error.
Can I just leave it like that? My understanding is that the htaccesss does set some potentially needed configurations. Will it cause issues for other users? Is there any way to tell what it was setting that didn't work? I could disable lines of it individually, I suppose?
Hostgator's server error logging seemed to also not really be working, so I had nothing useful to learn from that.
I am running phpBB 3.3.3, if that changes anything (can't update it because of incompatibilities with the theme). EDIT: I checked and apparently I can upgrade to 3.3.11 now. I may well do that. Above question still applies though, as I don't think it would change anything.
Statistics: Posted by 2drx4 — Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:15 pm