500 – Internal server error. When guests post comments

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  jprlopez · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 2:40 am

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  Whenever guests attempt to post comments on my blog (http://blog.zepolworkz.com) they get the following error:

  500 – Internal server error.
  There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

  I tried deactivating all plugins to no avail. I’m not sure if it is related bu I only started to notice this coming up when I recently updated my install to WordPress 2.6.2

  Any thoughts? Thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 3:21 am

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  Since you are self-hosted and using the software downloaded from wordpress.ORG, you need to direct your question to http://wordpress.ORG/support/ . This forum is for users of WordPress.COM, the free hosting service, and it uses a modified multi-user version of the software which is different from what you are using and few, if any, here know anything about it.

  WordPress.com or WordPress.org? The difference.

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  jprlopez · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 3:59 am

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  thank you sacredpath. Will note that in the future :)

  I sort of fixed the problem.

  Here’s the solution if anyone is interested.

  I had the blue-mist theme installed and had the setting “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” checked. When I tried going to the default theme, the real problem was that the user was expected to be logged in (DUH) but this was not indicated using the blue-mist theme.

  Long story short, I unchecked the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” setting.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 24, 2008 at 5:24 am

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  You’re welcome and I’m glad you got it figured out. Strand that it would do a 500 internal server error instead of saying the commenter must be logged in and displaying the login window. Perhaps a bug with the theme.