Internal Server Error?

[tx_deputyswife]

Suddenly I'm getting a "500 Internal Server Error"

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

 

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@nationalpolicewivesassociation.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

 

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

 

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

I cannot figure out what could have happened because no changes were made to the site. I checked the Error Log for the site and can't make a lick of sense out of it.

 

Can someone please help me?

[jayess]

I am also suddenly getting this on my site. How can this be fixed?

[tx_deputyswife]

Did you make any changes to your site? I ask, because I didn't. The error ust occurred out of the blue.

[jayess]

No I havent made any changes to the site in over a week. The site was fine yesterday but when I loaded it this morning I was getting the error. Thought I would leave it and see if it went away but it hasn't. My site uses the Mandalore server at TCH. Does yours?

[tx_deputyswife]

I have NO idea. Is there a way to find that out?

[tx_deputyswife]

When I look at my Error log it says this over and over:

Invalid command 'SecFilterEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

 

which I don't understand.

[jayess]

Same, I don't know what to do...

[tx_deputyswife]

I found which server I'm on and also, when I checked for new posts here on the forum, there are multiple messages about different server updates. I can't help but worder if this is the problem. When I looked at the one for the server I'm on, the time coincides with the time our site went down. I submitted a support ticket to let them know. You might try doing the same. I'll post back if I find out anything.

[tx_deputyswife]

Ok, that worked! They fixed the problem. So, submit a support ticket and let them know. Good luck and thank you! If you hadn't posted you were having trouble too, I might have been up all night trying to figure out what happened.

[jayess]

Ticket submitted. Glad you got yours sorted, looking forward to same

[TCH-Carl]

The servers are being upgraded to apache 2 on which "SecFilterEngine', 'SecPostScan' are depreciated. If you are using it on your .htaccess, please remove / comment the entry. The site would work fine.

This is an added layer of protection enabled as default on apache 2.

[jayess]

Ticket worked, all is now well again

 

[jayess]

The servers are being upgraded to apache 2 on which "SecFilterEngine', 'SecPostScan' are depreciated. If you are using it on your .htaccess, please remove / comment the entry. The site would work fine.

This is an added layer of protection enabled as default on apache 2.

 

So should this happen also to my other site, on Cathar server, I can simply do this and it will be fixed?

[TCH-Carl]

Yes, you can. If the issue persist, let us know. We will gladly check it out.

[OJB]

Yes I had this this morning... The fix was commenting out:

 

SecFilterEngine Off

 

 

from my web root .htaccess

[OJB]

Seems odd that an Apache upgrade would completely deprecate a command like that so that any sites with those commands that update will all cause internal server errors. Surely a better idea from apache would have been to kill it gracefully and just ignore the command and phase it out?

[muymalestado]

Same original 500 Internal Server Error problem occurred today.

 

After reading here I raised a ticket.

 

The response was prompt.

 

The site is accessible again.

 

Thanks TCH.