After installing Wordpress this afternoon, none of the websites I host on this server worked anymore. HTML files seemed to work just fine, but any of the scripted pages refused to work and threw a 500 internal server error.

After some digging around, it seems that WordPress had tried to modify the .htaccess file and partially succeeded. I had a Options -indexes in there. In fact, that was the only line in there.

After Wordpress installed, the file read


-indexes #BEGIN WORDPRESS
#END WORDPRESS


I'm not sure why the Options part was gone, but it was.

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