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For some reason, I suddenly get 500 Internal Server Error when I try to add menu item to a menu and I can't figure out why.

I'm running Apache2 with Centos 6 OS on a VPS.
I have PHP 5.8 and MySQL 5.1

This is the error message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. (...)

  • My error_log file shows nothing.
  • I can create new menus
  • I can not add pages or custom links to menu items
  • I've deleted the .htacess file and get the same error
  • I can add new pages and posts

Can anyone help me to figure out what may cause this weird problem?

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I found this message from Mark Jaquith, WP lead developer:

The WordPress core team is quite aware of this issue, and it is absolutely something that needs to be solved. It is an issue with how the menus are saved. Too much data is passed back. It takes a lot of memory and computation time, and many servers are configured to have limits on the number of vars you can POST in one request. Unfortunately, we just couldn't reach a consensus on the best way to solve it in time for WordPress 3.2. So for this release, it will have to remain a known issue that menu saving performance degrades or generates errors beyond a certain point (which may vary from server to server).

The Trac ticket has been tagged as 3.3-early, which means we'll put it as high priority early in the 3.3 development cycle.

I appreciate your feedback and for holding us to a high standard! This is how things get better.

The question is, when will t his be fixed? :-/

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500 Errors are typically .htaccess issues. Regenerate .htaccess and be sure the encoding in your text editor is Unicode No BOM. Or touch .htaccess from the shell.

Reupload core WP files and folders.

If that doesn't help, restart the box.

If that doesn't help, yum update after a backup.

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  • .htaccess is re-generated when I update permalink structure in WP damin. Restarting does not help. How will yum update help?
    – Steven
    Commented Mar 7, 2012 at 23:52
  • Updating Centos might help with a corrupted file. But reupload all core WP files and folders first. And also reboot the VPS.
    – markratledge
    Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 3:21
  • Actually it's a known bug. I just found this thread: wordpress.org/support/topic/…
    – Steven
    Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 11:21
  • Ah, interesting. How many menu items do you have?
    – markratledge
    Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 13:52
  • Around 40 I think.
    – Steven
    Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 14:08

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