Comments on: how to fix 500 Internal server error in wordpress

By: dave

dave — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:54:38 +0000

I just fixed my 500 internal error on wordpress after wrecking my brains for 5 hours straight! My issue had to do with the MENU tab after I created categories! For some reason WORDPRESS can’t handle categories and putting them into hierarchy format. I had to go back to the POST tab and select categories, find all the new ones I created and delete them. You might have to mess around with it because my new categories which I created were hiding somehow. After deleting, the MENU tab works and no 500 internal error! Hope this helps some to figure out this nightmare of an issue!

Take care!

By: Nabil

Nabil — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:36:49 +0000

For some strange reason, this does not seem to work for my blog. It shows an error all the time…

By: Jacob Patel

Jacob Patel — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:24:37 +0000

Cpanel is reall great for managing websites and server reources`.*

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:45:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing. it helps.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:15:32 +0000

In my case, the Rackspace hosting / wordpress automatic upgrade combination caused the permission of all the files under wp-admin and wp-includes to be changed from 644 to 755. If you know how to upgrade wordpress manually, that might end up saving you more time especially when you are working with an unfamiliar host.

By: infocity

infocity — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:11:58 +0000

If your domain is on linux server and you are using cpanel than you can get 500 internal server error if you have wrong directory /files permissions. Directories and folders should be 755.
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for more info:
http://www.bestarticleworld.com/2010/01/500-internal-server-error-causes.html

By: Simon Britton

Simon Britton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:07:43 +0000

Many thanks, I had an .htaccess file for joomla on one site and tried to use cpanel to set up a redirect which then went on to corrupt the .htaccess file, simply removed the bit cpanel had tagged on and BAM, working again. Good work

By: zaki

zaki — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:37:55 +0000

Sure, you’re most welcome. Hope to see you again

By: Reyality

Reyality — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:27 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info… it was very helpful!

By: Campy

Campy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:27:42 +0000

Nice info. Thanks!!!

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By: zaki

zaki — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:14:14 +0000

It’s the hosting company who play2, hehehe

By: megat

megat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:41:50 +0000

Thanks for the info! Great! At least here i have info for that problem.

By: catzer

catzer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:42:19 +0000

it happen to me today.. :p luckily it just blog experiment during tutorial.

By: shaz

shaz — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:36:36 +0000

dun play2 with .htaccess hehe..
luckily your blog is okay now…

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From Blogger.com to WordPress.org at zakiyamani.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:26:07 +0000

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By: KNizam

KNizam — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:05:42 +0000

cool precaution. i will need this some time if affected

By: zaki

zaki — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:58:56 +0000

Hehe, I learn from mistakes too

By: zaki

zaki — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:53:15 +0000

You’re rite, type error.

Cool!! Hope you like it

By: zaki

zaki — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:51:31 +0000

Yes, blogjer on NetKL

By: Weight Loss Wand

Weight Loss Wand — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:39:48 +0000

I have faced this problem of internal errors many times and it was always difficult for me to solve. But this information has helped me a lot to face this problem easily.

By: alzack

alzack — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:40:55 +0000

Wow…thanks for the info…Last time I had this problem …i gave up….at least now…i can know what to do…

By: azwanhadzree

azwanhadzree — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:38:13 +0000

you r on netkl to .. cool
so far didnt face this problem

By: catzer

catzer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:41:47 +0000

500 Internal server error never happen to my site yet, however thanks for let me know how to fix it incase it happen someday.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:00:15 +0000

Hi Zaki,

Glad to see your blog is okay now.

I do not understand this:

“…their .htaccess visible too, but all of them work just fine.”

Do you mean invisible?

P.S. I just got back today and have received the T-shirt you sent. Thanks, mate!