Re: 404 errors turning into 500 errors through internal redirects
The offending party is usually Googlebot-images (but it has been others in the past).
I did what you said a disallowed googlebot-images with robots.txt, it seems to be working, but googlebot might only come through every 6-12 hours so can’t tell yet.
But even if that does work, I can easily recreate the error myself.
If I type in (which doesn’t exist):
http://sportsblognet.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg
I get a 500 Internal Server Error
If I type in (which doesn’t exist):
http://rotoassist.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg
It comes up as the proper 404 error
the rotoassist site is a regular WP 2.7.1 site on Site5 (one-click install type)
On another topic…is it good to create a ginormous robots.txt file? I’m wondering if that slows down your site at all.
And yes I use Firefox and have the Web Developer Add-on. The only info it gives me with the error though, is that it is a 500 internal error.
Another question…would you know anything about MySQL? Or do you know who I could talk to? I have some questions on our database and the speed of it.
Thanks for the constant help.
