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Hello

I’m currently running v2.2.2 - Build: date 20110801 and everything has been going smoothly. However, I published a couple of entries to one of my channels and when trying to publish a third entry I was redirected to a 501.shtml page which, on the site, takes you to our 404 page (I assume because 501.shtml isn’t a proper URL).

This was yesterday, I tried submitting content again today and lo and behold it worked. However, after publishing a few entries and then trying once again, I am taken to http://mysite.com/501.shtml and the content is not submitted.

This is very frustrating as I have no idea where the problem lies. If anyone could shed any light on this I would greatly appreciate it!

Cheers
Rury

Hi Rury,

That is definitely unusual. Could you post up the contents of your .htaccess file here. you can put it between [ code][ /code] tags or use a pastie. Also could you check your server error logs for any relevant information after one of these errors occurs?

Sean

Nothing in the error logs :( However here is my htaccess file, I’ve removed a huge list of redirects:

# ^ = match start of URL
# $ = match end of URL
# [R] = Do a redirect with new URL (rather than hiding the new URL)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ <a href="http://sitename.com">http://sitename.com</a> [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.htm$ <a href="http://sitename.com">http://sitename.com</a> [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^panic_story.htm$ <a href="http://sitename.com/how-i-beat-panic-attacks">http://sitename.com/how-i-beat-panic-attacks</a> [R=301,L]
# removed massive list of redirects and changed URL of site.

# Rewrite homepage urls that have the google query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^utm_
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php?/site/index/&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}/$1">http://www.%{http_host}/$1</a> [R=301,L]

# this adds trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

# BEGIN Expression Engine Rewrite

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]
</IfModule>

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Hi Rury,

I don’t see anything unusual in that .htaccess file, but I would like you to temporarily remove it and see if the issue persists. If that does not resolve it, I’d like you to upgrade your site to 2.4.0 so that we can be on the same page for troubleshooting. When upgrading don’t forget to update any add-ons you are using to the latest version as well.

Sean

Hi Sean

Thanks for your response. After disabling .htaccess and trying to submit an entry I got the following error, if this is any help:

501 Method Not Implemented

GET to /admin.php not supported.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Cheers
Rury

Hi Rury,

There is definitely something unusual going on here. I’d like you to contact your host and ask them about this error and if there is anything that they can see on their end causing this issue - have they recently upgraded apache, php or something else on the server?

Sean