SHTML Wrapper - 500 Server Error
Technology January 6th, 2010I was getting the above error when I moved my Magento installation from one host to Bluehost (Hostmonster). What I used to get was nothing on the screen with the error:
<!– SHTML Wrapper - 500 Server Error –>
appearing in the source of the page.
I tried various things like reinstalling the database, reinstalling Magento, tried to see the logs I had access to. None of them worked.
Then I came across a link that said enabling FastCGI option for PHP would fix this. That’s exactly what I did & the bug was fixed. The Magento installation then started working smoothly.
Strangely, I had come across a link that said disabling FastCGI will fix this, but that wasn’t the case.
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June 28th, 2010 at 1:12 am
Just ran into this problem with my WordPress website on Bluehost - your solution fixed it, thanks!
June 28th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Hey Will,
Glad this worked for you.
:Vishal
September 28th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Yup, exactly what my problem was. I enabled FastCGI and boom - it worked. For your other visitors: on the main cPanel find the PHP Config icon near the bottom, go there and change to PHP5 FastCGI. Weird thing was that I had a wordpress site running for years on there and now I wanted to write some custom PHP code in a separate folder. All of a sudden I get these damn SHTML Wrapper errors. Thanks for the heads up!
September 29th, 2011 at 3:32 am
Hey Mike,
Thanks for the comment. At that time, I couldn’t quite find a relation as to what FastCGI does & how did it solve the SHTML 500 problem.