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Anyone who has used WordPress for even a small amount of time will be only too aware of the pain when you try to access it and are confronted with the dreaded 500 Internal Server Error. It normally happens either at a busy time or when you want to publish a new post.

99% of the time the problem will lay with a problem with your .htaccess file. For reasons I am unable to explain the file can become corrupt at times. Some will say this is due to some plugins but I am not 100% certain of this.

Fixing the problem should be straight forward.

1. Back up your current .htaccess file. (This is incredibly important!)

2. Delete all of the information from your .htaccess file and save it i.e. upload a blank .htaccess file.

3. Your blog should now be usable again so go into the admin area and set your permalink structure again.

4. Open your new working .htaccess file in an editor. Now copy over all the non WordPress .htaccecss information from your old backed up .htaccess file eg. any search engine htaccess information, ip blocks etc – basically everything Non-WordPress that you added before.

If you find that adding all the code from the previous .htaccess file is causing an Internal Server Error again then remove it all and enter the information back to the working .htaccess file line by line to see what is causing the problem.

Thanks to Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club for providing the solution to this.

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Well another month is over with, I am finding it hard to believe that we are already into our seventh month of the year. It seemed like only last week that I was seeing in the New Year in a part of London with friends. People are now talking about how long it is till Christmas!

The first of the month means one thing here at IND and that is it is time for the Monthly Blog Income Report!

Sadly I have not followed through with my promise to knuckle down and I think you can see that by the fact that my income has dropped from last month to one of the lowest of all time.

I started this as a little side project in November 2007 to determine if it was at all possible to earn proper money on the internet as many other people have claimed to have done before me.

Page Impressions & Visitor Count

I’ve decided to give this another go starting from next month. Everyone I have spoken to have informed me that Google Analytics are the most accurate stat tracker.

So from next month I will be using Google Analytics to track my traffic.

Money Money Money!

Adbrite = $0.20 (-$0.28)
Adsense = $12.04 (+$8.38)
Adtoll = $0.57 (+$0.28)
Bidvertiser = $0.18
Clicksor = $0.55 (+$0.20)
Kontera = $0.04 (+$0.04)
Reviews = $31.00 (-$62.85)
Smowtion = $0.07
TLA = $16.93 (+$4.52)
Xapads = $0.06

Total = $61.64 (-$49.40)

* The reason for the drop in earnings is due to me taking on a new job as I am not being productive enough to earn enough money from this blog to give up a normal job.

* Halfway through the money I started using Bidvertiser, Smowtion & Xapads. Bidvertiser is PPC company while Smowtion & Xapads pay me for every 1,000 unique visitors.

* This month is Kontera’s last month to impress me before I remove them completely.

Top Five Search Terms

I like this part of the monthly income report. It is amazing how people find my blog on search engines.

1. I need discipline
2. specticles
3. blog income 2009
4. blog income may 2009
5. need discipline

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