1080805 - Akismet Js Returning a 500

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Websites :: The Open Standard, defect)

Description

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Looks like some JS is being loaded by the akisment plugin, however it's path is producing a 500 error.

https://blog.mozilla.org/openstandard-en/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js?ver=3.0.2


Also attaching a screenshot.

Chris - this is one of those networked plugins that we dont configure at all on the open standard site. Can you check why this may be occuring.

Comment 1

[Chris Turra [:cturra]]

this appears to be happening on all mutli-site instances on the prod blog platform. is this blocking using the plugin? 

i don't really have the cycles right now to dig into this. there are no errors in the apache error log, just logs like the following in the access log:

  "<IPS_REMOVED>" - - [09/Oct/2014:12:58:30 -0700] "GET /openstandard-en/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/akismet.js?ver=3.0.2 HTTP/1.1" 500 541 "https://openstandard.mozilla.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=70&action=edit" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0"


 $ curl -I https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/plugins/akismet/_inc/form.js\?ver\=3.0.2
 HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
 Server: Apache
 X-Backend-Server: generic4.webapp.phx1.mozilla.com
 Vary: Accept-Encoding
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:59:44 GMT
 Connection: close
 X-Cache-Info: not cacheable; response code not cacheable

Comment 2

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Should be fixed shortly, pending a puppet run.

Problem is that akismet ships a .htaccess file that includes Order, Allow, and Deny statements. The apache config has to specify "AllowOverride Limit" for this to be allowed... otherwise it throws that 500 ISE.

Comment 3

[Chris Turra [:cturra]]

thnx :jakem. great catch.

Comment 4

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

No idea if this is related but the site in the past few minutes (10 or so) has slowed to crawl. Both the admin and site.

Comment 5

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Verified fixed.

Slowness was unrelated.. gravatar was having issues.

Comment 6

[Kurtis Rader]

FWIW, If you're running Apache 2.5 or later you also need this entry in your httpd.conf otherwise the legacy access directives used by the Akismet .htaccess file will result in a 500 error:

  LoadModule access_compat_module libexec/apache2/mod_access_compat.so

I noticed this after updating my Wordpress server and deliberately chose not to enable support for the legacy access directives (by leaving that line commented out) since I thought only my top-level .htaccess file existed in my document tree.