Sean Gibbins wrote:
> Nick Chalk wrote:
>
>> Jamie's web site is experiencing a strange problem
>> with links from Google.
>>
>> If you search for, say, "jamie's computers" on
>> Google, you'll get several links to our site. (It
>> uses the old domain name, unfortunately, but I've
>> yet to work out how to fix that.)
>>
>> Sometimes, when you click on one of those links,
>> you'll get a "500 Internal Server Error" response.
>> Reloading the page - including bypassing caches -
>> returns the same error. However, hitting return in
>> the URL bar, or pasting the URL into another
>> window, returns the page correctly.
>>
>> I've never seen the front page fail, but most
>> others do. The highest frequency of failure is
>> with pages like
>> http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/training/index.php?code=14
>> and
>> http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/training/index.php?code=21
>> These use a simple bit of PHP to look up course
>> details in an array.
>>
>> I've checked the hosting provider's logs, and
>> there's no errors reported by Apache. The failing
>> attempts don't appear in the access logs.
>>
>> Any ideas what could be causing this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I couldn't reproduce the error with either of the links you supplied, or
> with the one that Al supplied either.
>
> I did a search for 'jamie's computer club' and was able to hit the first
> result, 'www.*jamies**computer*club.org.uk/' first time.
>
Just retried that and it failed, FWIW.
That was '
www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/' btw - I think the asterisks
crept in because of Thunderbird's interpretation of some bold text that
came back from the copy'n'paste.
> I tried the second result in the list
> 'http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/sales.html' and got the error you
> describe. I tried Al's suggestion of a wget on the link and was indeed
> able to retrieve it. Subsequent retries with my browser with the cache
> cleared, etc., still failed.
>
> I hit it several at about 08:03 from IP address 90.203.61.64 if that
> helps with searching through the logs.
