However with it’s benefits 1and1 has some downsides, with time I have learned that googling things and trying to solve issues myself is much more effective than dealing with 1and1 support.

Recently I’ve decided to resurrect my website and delete bunch of stuff I didn’t need and add some links and articles. Due to that, I decided to re-install WordPress from scratch and of course, ran into some problems with 500 Internal Error pages on my wordpress.

The main reason i’m posting this is so that next time someone googles this similar issue can access this information faster than it took me as I ended up sifting through thousands of posts on wordpress support forums.

So here it is:

Specs:  1and1 Linux Shared Hosting; Mac with Transmit FTP software from Panic.

Issue: 500 Internal Error page when accessing “wp-admin/edit.php” *amongst others

Solution:

In your FTP client, (in my case Transmit) enable view of hidden files (below)

then look for .htaccess file in your wordpress root folder, open it and add the following to it below # END WordPress

Options All -Indexes
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Here’s a screenshot of what my .htaccess looks like with some stuff omitted for privacy but you’ll get the idea.

EDIT: This also helps with failing upload issues in WordPress as well as a bundle of other weird issues that wordpress has on 1and1