s2member crashed my website again!

I’d forgotten that I tried to install it six months ago, and it crashed my website with an error in .htaccess resulting in an Internal Service Error. It just happened again. I’d really like to use s2member … is there any solution to this problem?

Hello Noel,

What is the actual URL of your website? And what are the contents of the .htaccess this time? With s2Member installed of course.

– Eduan

Hi Eduan, the url is http://sandbox.nzlee.com. I can’t give you the .htaccess contents with s2Member installed, as my host’s support folks cleaned it out so I could continue to function. I’d be willing to install it and crash again, if necessary to solve this problem. I now have a backup copy of .htaccess that I can restore from. What do you think?

I checked, and from what I can tell, an ideal .htaccess is:

# BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)s2member_file_download\=.+
	RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1]
</IfModule>
# END s2Member GZIP exclusions

So what happens if you change that .htaccess, from:

# BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions

RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase sandbox_nzlee_com
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)s2member_file_download\=.+
RewriteRule .* – [E=no-gzip:1]

# END s2Member GZIP exclusions

to:

# BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)s2member_file_download\=.+
	RewriteRule .* – [E=no-gzip:1]
</IfModule>
# END s2Member GZIP exclusions

This is from your older post BTW, I checked that .htaccess file.

Tell me how it goes if you change that. :)

thanks … i’ll give it a try and let you know

Hey Eduan, It worked! At least my site is up and running with s2Member installed. Now I have some learning to do. Thanks so much for your help!

No problem! Glad I was able to help. :)