I recently installed bbPress on a shared Linux hosting system (elief.com). It’s running a LiteSpeed web-server:

http://www.randysteerforanc.org

Installation went fine, and I posted a few “starter” topics successfully, but ever since it was first installed, I have to load almost every page twice. The first time any page tries to load, it gives a “503 Service Unavailable (The server is temporarily busy, try again later!)” error message. If I click the browser’s reload button, the page almost always loads correctly the second time.

So it stumbles along, but reloading every page and every post will be really annoying for my users.

I’ve run other PHP packages on this server before without running into this problem.

Any suggestions?

[@gerikg Member 16 years ago]

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/503error.htm

[@johnhiler Member 16 years ago]

There was some discussion of 503 errors on a bbPress install here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/second-page-gone

Maybe something there will be helpful?

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years ago]

What plugins are you using?

[@johnhiler Member 16 years ago]

Good question… that 503 report I linked to earlier was caused by an interaction between mini-track and bb-attachments.

[@rsteer Member 16 years ago]

Not using any plugins — at least not intentionally. Maybe some are automatic.

[@rsteer Member 16 years ago]

> There was some discussion of 503 errors on a bbPress install here:

That suggests a couple of things I could ask Elief’s tech support. I was mostly wondering if this was a fairly common problem — it almost gave me the impression that it was trying to process the page so fast that it kind of tripped over itself.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years ago]

It’s not a common problem.

[@rsteer Member 16 years ago]

Does bbPress care if the server is running PHP 4 or 5? Mine is running 5.2.11.

Thanks.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years ago]

5.2.11 is just fine.