I’ve been a customer of GoDaddy for over four years. I know (now) their reputation isn’t the best, but I signed-up with them when I knew no better and to be honest I’ve never really had a problem with their service.

However, last week I started getting 500 Internal Server Error messages whenever I tried to access this blog or login to the WordPress Dashboard. This was a little surprising as I hadn’t made any recent changes.

The Apache error logs were not much help, with the message Premature end of script headers: repeated over and over. A quick Google search showed I was not alone. This issue had been raised in GoDaddy’s own forums, but no answer provided.

Having narrowed down the culprit to the inFocus theme I’m using I found that a fix had already been provided by the developers. The offending file was wp-content/themes/infocus/lib/admin/tinymce/tinymce.php and simply replacing it with the one provided by the developers for download fixed the issue.

You can view a comparison of the original and revised tinymce.php file here.

The question remains though: what are GoDaddy changing in their server configurations that is suddenly causing this error?