I noticed last night that I could not access this site (though all of my others worked, hosted on the same provider). Every time I would try to access ANY part of my site I got a 500 Internal Server Error. This baffled me, as I hadn’t made any changes – and it was happening regardless of which URL I went to on my site (even the non-public urls which should have still worked – even if I borked my site)
Thankfully some sys admins at my hosting provider were able to help me track down the issue to an incredibly large ( > 2GB ) log file stored in my WordPress uploads directory. Now, if you’re like me you are probably thinking “why the hell was a log file stored THERE?” The answer to that question is that a plugin, wp-openid, is the culprit. It apparently logs a lot of things and fails to put the logs in a SANE location, so that when the log file balloons to be over 2 gigabytes in size it brings the site to it’s knees.
Nevermind the fact that a 2GB log file is a bit… excessive. Needless to say I’m taking OpenID access offline until I’ve had a chance to sort this stuff out and fix it’s logging mechanism.
The site should run perfectly fine now for everyone.
