Theme I have has error with Digitalocean, but not other host!

June 6, 2017 1.2k views
WordPress Ubuntu 16.04
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The theme I have on landofmilfs.com gives me a 'http error 500' any time I try to view one of my post. I tried deleting all plugins, editing my htacces file (however it wasn't in the same folder as wp-content, wp-includes, etc). I even deleted my droplet and tried reinstalling it. It's not the theme because I bought a hostgator plan and it works just fine on there.

Any help would be loved as I love digital ocean!

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hansen June 6, 2017

Hi @ensurance

My guess would be that your theme is doing something, which is not compatible with PHP 7.0, which is the default version delivered with Ubuntu 16.04

Have a look in your Apache log file to get more details - run this command:

tail -30 /var/log/apache/error.log
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  • ensurance June 6, 2017

    Thanks for the reply, I took a look at the error log and it said 'syntax error, unexprected 'endwhile' (T_ENDWHILE) in /var/www/html/wp-content/themes/rosatube/single.php on line 128'

    What should I do to fix that?

    • hansen June 6, 2017

      @ensurance
      Have you created that theme or did you buy it?
      If you created the them, then you need to edit the file and have a look at line 128, which is probably ending a loop too soon - look for an extra } character.
      If you have bought the theme, then you need to see if there is an updated version of the theme, which fixes this - or contact the author.

jtittle1 June 7, 2017

@ensurance

If you're able to post single.php, we can take a closer look to see if there's anything we can spot if you're unable to. A second set of eyes generally helps :-).

WordPress generally uses:

while ( expr ) : 

    do stuff ....

endwhile;

So you're most likely missing the endwhile; at the end (at least according to that error).

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