SEO Problem "Server 500"

Hey Guys,

I’ve been having SEO problems with this one site I build last year: www.thevillasongreatbay.com

For some reason google is having problems crawling the site, google gets a "Server 500". Turns out google is not the only site having problems accessing my site, if i try to run my site through the W3C Validator (using url) it too gets a "Server 500". So does other search engines like yahoo and bing.

Check it out: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.thevillasongreatbay.com&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

This is the only one hosted with Brinkster and the only one with this problem. Brinkster says that it’s something to do with what modx is doing in the index.php file.

Does anyone know anything about this? Or how i can fix this?

Thanks

This works, with the http://
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.thevillasongreatbay.com/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&No200=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.1

Hey,

you’re working with Evo?
I’ve got the issue myself and wrote about it here: http://de.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http://www.novolo.de/blog/2010/seo-modx-evolution-was-passieren-kann&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=%C3%9Cbersetzen
Please check if it’s the same issue.

@bunk58: yes.. this is strange.. it work with that link you send.. but i’m unable to manually replicate this directly from the w3c site. However it still doesnt explain why seo services cant access my site.

@smooth: Yes, i do beleive that were having the same issue.. however i dont have SEO strict installed on my site. So i’m guessing i’l have to think of another solution to this problem.

Right now my options are moving to another host (Godaddy has never failed me) OR upgrading to Revolution (How complicated is it to move from EVO to REVO?)

Thanks

Quote from: digitalmaster at Jan 26, 2011, 11:24 PM

@smooth: Yes, i do beleive that were having the same issue.. however i dont have SEO strict installed on my site. So i’m guessing i’l have to think of another solution to this problem.
Right now my options are moving to another host (Godaddy has never failed me) OR upgrading to Revolution (How complicated is it to move from EVO to REVO?)

I don’t think you have to change neither the host nor the major version. It’s definitely a problem with some SEO / URL settings / plugins / snippets in MODx Evo. Can you specify what snippets and plugins / modules are installed? I remember that there was another problem besides the SEO Strict plugin...

Quote from: smooth-graphics at Jan 27, 2011, 12:43 AM

I don’t think you have to change neither the host nor the major version. It’s definitely a problem with some SEO / URL settings / plugins / snippets in MODx Evo. Can you specify what snippets and plugins / modules are installed? I remember that there was another problem besides the SEO Strict plugin...

Yes, try disabling AjaxSearch Highlight plugin...

Quote from: Eol at Jan 27, 2011, 05:33 PM

Yes, try disabling AjaxSearch Highlight plugin...

Ah yes that was it.

Great! It would be good if we could determine the problem with the AjaxSearch Highlight plugin.
Could you take a moment to provide:
* web server type and version
* php version
* other plugins you have installed

Okay, my settings:

- Apache2, Debian
- PHP Version 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0
- MODx Evo 1.0.4 (was back then when I had problems)
- SEO Strict URLs, TransAlias (not sure if installed at that time), Search Highlight, QM, TinyMCE