How to Restore your Blog from “500 Internal Server Error” while using “WordPress Download Monitor”"

Arun — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:25:29 +0000

If you are facing a “500Internal server error” while using “wordpress download monitor” plugin, the problem will be most probably caused when you try to use a custom url for a download file or when you try to update the “Permalinks” of the wordpress blog. If so , then you don’t have to rename or delete the plugin folder (even if you do that the problem will not resolve).

Instead you have to check your “.htaccess” file in your root directory.This is because, when you try to use a custom url, it will write some rewrite rules in your “.htaccess” file .open your “.htaccess” file in a text editor, verify it and modify it. so that it looks exactly like below

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^download/(.*)$ wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

after modify it as above , just refresh the browser and point it to your blog.It should work as normal

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How to Restore your Blog from “500 Internal Server Error” while using “WordPress Download Monitor”"