I went through all the steps, other than switching my wxindex to index, and I am still getting a 500 error. Do you all think it is the old version of php? That had never been an issue before, but I'm just trying to determine what the cause is.
Just to check some things Ken included a handy utility
http://www.fitzweather.com/check-fetch-times.php?show=settings => both Settings and Settings-weather are readable, no parsing errors.
http://www.fitzweather.com/check-fetch-times.php?show=structure => top.php header.php menubar.php footer.php seem to be ok
So it is not your php version as the test-script works OK and the script reads some of your file also OK.
The problem is that your default php settings suppresses ALL warnings, errors a.s.o. So we get no information about what is going on.
I use a small test-program to load a script i have to test. It sets all error reporting on and then loads the script to be tested.
<?php ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); error_reporting(E_ALL);
include 'wxindex.php';
If your main page is wxindex.php the script is correct, otherwise change line 2.
I attach the script. Put the unzipped version in your root and run
http://www.fitzweather.com/testit.phpAt least we should see some errors.
If you run into more problems, you can pm me with a (temporary) userid and password.
I can check faster what the problem is that way then typing these messages,
Wim