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I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error whenever attempting to copy and paste the following syntax to MediaWiki on DreamHost Shared Hosting. Any ideas on what might be causing it or how to fix it? https://nicolesharp1.dreamhosters.com/sandbox/info.php

Syntax does not save: user:Nicole Sharp/sandbox → https://nicolesharp1.dreamhosters.com/sandbox/mediawiki/index.php?title=sandbox.

Syntax does save: wikipedia:user:Nicole Sharp/sandbox → https://nicolesharp1.dreamhosters.com/sandbox/mediawiki/index.php?title=sandbox_2.

Since the single image gallery does save but the page with two galleries does not, it looks like there is some kind of limitation preventing the larger page from being saved. I have tried increasing the allotted PHP settings but to no avail, so that does not appear to be the issue, especially since the full sandbox page does save on AlterVista (which has less resources than DreamHost does): http://nicolesharp1.altervista.org/sandbox/mediawiki/index.php?title=sandbox.

Nicole Sharp (talk) 16:01, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

I think I might have found a workaround. If I simply create the galleries using HTML IMG links instead of wikimarkup with Instant Commons, the page will save and display in seconds instead of minutes (or not at all).

https://nicolesharp1.dreamhosters.com/sandbox/mediawiki/index.php?title=Sandbox_4

Any idea though why the page will not save if the Wikimedia Commons images are wikilinked to, but will save if they are hyperlinked to?

Nicole Sharp (talk) 01:56, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Qapla'!! Switching from FastCGI to CGI resolved the problem.