Well, it happened again. Yesterday, all three of our family blogs (mine, daughter Karen’s, and husband Roger’s) returned a 500 internal server error when you try to view them. Yes, we do use the same ISP, but oddly enough we are in separate accounts. Somebody had to go to a great deal of trouble to do this. Not only do we have separate domain accounts with our ISP, but we bought them at different times and they reside on separate servers. The ISP is not having a general problem like this–just our three accounts. We’re starting to take it personally!
My first line of action in such cases is to re-install fresh blogging software. Oops. The permissions on the blog folders in all three domains had changed, so I couldn’t access them. A call to our ISP made my blog visible, but I still couldn’t access the dashboard to do anything else. That eventually was fixed, as you can see by my ability to write a new post. Now Karen’s site is visible, but she has no access to her dashboard, and Roger is down completely. Nothing we can do on our end–our ISP has to do it.
Okay, techies out there–what’s going on with the permissions thing? How does somebody do this? Roger thinks he has managed to tick off Google–as our hacks have always coincided with his posting something critical (he’s a Yahoo fan). Coincidence? Or not?
