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]<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule># 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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This doesn’t always happen, it was because your host doesn’t allow writing of files by default, to watch they’re own ass.
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