If you are hosting a website on shared hosting server, you might have seen the following errors we are going to discuss today. At some point of time, you will see that your site is down or not working properly after the last changes made or for no obvious reason. We have covered some most common errors that you will be facing most of the times and ways to resolve these errors.
1- Server Not Found, Website Unavailable
If you see the error Server Not Found, Website Unavailable. Try checking in different browsers and also try opening your site using different proxies. If your browser displays your website well and good, if it doesn’t then clear your browsers cache.
If your site working on online proxies but not on your browser then it is posiible that DNS propagation had some issues with it. Usually DNS propagation takes 24-48 hours to propagate the DNS zone all over the world. This process cannot be intercepted or influenced.
If your site is not working on any proxy or browser then check if the domain is pointed correctly to the server. If your website’s DNS propagation has completed and your site is still down, then this can be some technical issues with your server on which your site is hosted.
2- White Blank Page
It can cause by PHP errors which you can check the error_log file placed in your public_html directory. This file contains a lot of useful information which you can use to diagnose the problem. PHP Selector also allows you to enable error reporting right on your website page. You should switch display_errors to ON in PHP Settings:
3- 403 Forbidden
This is the error that users face most of the times. What actually happens is that when the domain is propagated properly and you don’t place any files or folder on your hosting panel and access your website, then this error occurs. You should put your website file and folders on the root directory of your hosting. Other thing that you should also take care is the permission of files and folders placed on the root directory of your hosting panel.
4- 500 Internal Server Error
One of the most common errors you can expect or you will see when hosting your website is 500 internal server error. To counter this problem you should check the .htaccess file directives, code and check if any syntax errors are there. If you are not sure what should you change in this file, you should rename the .htaccess file. By doing this all the rules will be disabled and if any faulty rule is present there it will also be disabled and your site should be up and running.
2. This can also be caused by the setting of invalid paths set by the current version and PHP.ini uploaded by the user. Rename the php.ini file to diagnose and make your site up and running again.
