Internal Server Error

HI Pete
About two hours ago it would take FOREVER for the pages to load. I expect
they are doing site maintenance.At least I'm hoping that's it.
Tom in Tucson

"Pete" <piperwarrior5 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4585eb52-0c2c-4877-b6d6-f1076b265b8a@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Gang.
> I just tried to access Flightsim.com and have come up with Internal
> Server Error .
> Anyone else experiencing problems or is it me ?
> Hope it hasn't gone the same way as Avsim did !
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete (Stafford UK)

> Hope I've just enhanced your enjoyment of the largest library in the world.
>
> Tom


Thanks for the explaination Tom..I did get the general gyst of your
answer but must admit that 80 percent of it sounded Swahili to
me !! )

Regards,

Pete

Pete wrote:
> Whoops !! Would you soddin' believe it !!
> The next time I tried the bloody site connected perfectly !!
> (Albeit a little slow)
>
> Pete.

Hi Pete,

Without getting into a technical discussion, an error 500 (named
"Internal Server Error") is a very generic error type which the web
server returns when it encounters an error in a script. Some scripting
languages return a precise error message, in which case the web server
will print it out (not that it's very useful to the visitor, but
webmasters like those explicit error messages), but most scripting
languages used on web servers weren't specifically designed for the web
and therefore the web server does not know how to handle them.

In some cases, the error appears because the programmer did a mistake.
In other cases, a necessary service stopped working and the error will
appear until the system is restarted. But in most cases, they appear
because too many people have requested a page at the same time and the
system fails to fulfill all the requests at once. In these cases,
reloading the page every few seconds will eventually succeed. Actually
trying this strategy for any error you get on a page often works.

Hope I've just enhanced your enjoyment of the largest library in the world.

Tom

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 09:06:13 -0700 (PDT), Pete wrote:

> Thanks for the explaination Tom..I did get the general gyst of your
> answer but must admit that 80 percent of it sounded Swahili to
> me !! )

Wow.. Tom Duhamel speaks English, French.. and Swahili?
--
Dallas

It's working for me. Must have been just a temporary thing.

Randy L.

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"When making an emergency off-field landing at night,
turn on the landing light just prior to touchdown.
If you don't like what you see, then turn off the landing light."

"Pete" <piperwarrior5.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4585eb52-0c2c-4877-b6d6-f1076b265b8a@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Gang.
> I just tried to access Flightsim.com and have come up with Internal
> Server Error .
> Anyone else experiencing problems or is it me ?
> Hope it hasn't gone the same way as Avsim did !
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete (Stafford UK)