By catweazle on

My site is working 100% on my local test machine. After transferring it to my host (fatcow.com), a few very strange things start to happen:

- I frequently see 'old' versions of pages (i.e. pages I've seen before, but new content doesn't show up)
- About 50% of the time, I get "500 Internal Server Error". Clicking refresh loads the page eventually.
- Sometimes, logging in as user A gives me user B's permissions !!

I use Drupal 6.8.

Any ideas ?

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catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

For those who want to have a look for themselves, the site is at:
http://bordermadness.org

3cwebdev’s picture

3cwebdev commented

I don't know what the problem is but you should make sure you start with a level playing field by clearing your cache admin/settings/performance and I would try rebuilding the permissions admin/content/node-settings

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

Before reporting this problem, I:
- turned off all optimisations
- cleared the cache manually

3cwebdev’s picture

3cwebdev commented

Did you rebuild the permissions?

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

I did rebuild them. Does not make a difference...

jtjones23’s picture

jtjones23 commented

Also, make sure you loaded Drupal's .htaccess file to your site.

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

Yes, I transferred *everything* ...

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

One thing to note:

I developed the site on http://localhost/bordermadness/
(a subdirectory of the apache htdocs directory)

Then I copied that subdirectory to the host, and configured the domain:
http://bordermadness.org -> ~home/bordermadness

Could this have anything to do with my problems ??

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

Can anyone see http://bordermadness.org without getting "500 Internal Server Error" ??

jtjones23’s picture

jtjones23 commented

I'm not getting any errors at all. Can you share the solution?

catweazle’s picture

catweazle commented

Thanks for trying it out!
Unfortunately I don't have a solution yet. It works fine from my home internet connection (and yours).
But I get the 500 errors with my work internet connection. All other sites work fine there !!

3cwebdev’s picture

3cwebdev commented

I was able to load the site fine also. Remember that we're accessing as Anonymous and not authenticated as you might be. Test it as anon and if it works then the problem is limited to authenticated or super user access. Perhaps a specific module...