How to Fix the 500 Internal Server Error on WordPress

[@yoelp9143]

3:13 After series of depressing trials, This step worked like magic for me. Thanks so much Elegant Themes for saving my life. Omg! Phhwweeeeew!

[@kika9820]

I have viewed many videos on this topic topic today, but this video is the only one that worked for my site. Thank you.

[@Dienex]

"open up your wordpress root directory" no idea how lol

[@Bigfaith11]

Which hosting company are you using for your website? You can log into your website's hosting company website and from the control panel you may find file manager options to help you access your wp root directory.

[@lingmaaki]

The web server is telling you that something went wrong, but it's not sure exactly what that is. This is a "catch all" status for unexpected errors. The error is particularly frustrating because it gives you no information about what specifically caused the server error. The first thing you need to know about an Internal Server Error is that the error can only be resolved by fixes to the Web server software. It is not a client-side problem meaning that the problem is not with your browser, your computer, or your internet connection. While not probable, it is possible that there's something wrong on your end, in which case we'll look at some things you can try: First you Backing Up Your Site Verify Server permission Check .htaccess file Increasing the Memory Limit Deactivate all Plugins Re-uploading Core Files Finally, Ask your Hosting Provider net-informations.com/q/mis/500.html

[@garyyoung7154]

I'm actually so grateful that you guys always make these videos that save my bacon every time

[@elegantthemes]

You're welcome Gary! 😄

[@IR240474]

I had memory limit issue. The hosting company upgraded and I had to add the command in config file. Thank you. It worked for me.

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! Glad we could help! 😄

[@martonvarga2799]

Thank you for your video! For those who tried to write '64M' and it didn't work try to write '256M'. It worked for me!

[@gridiswise3512]

Thanks for all the suggestions. While none of these worked this time, they have helped me in the past, so I wanted to share with you another possibility, which worked for me in this instance. Call your hosting provider and ask them to check their PHP. The website I was troubleshooting last night had an outdated version of PHP on the hosting side.

[@rajendram9585]

Thanks man, disabling plugins by renaming the folders solved my error on my website. Good work with video. I was updating the plugins and all of sudden website went down during the update process.... Thanks again..

[@Mademoiselleaimelest]

Thanks same here! Found out by renaming the pluging folder ! testing worked... but i am not sure how to find which pluging works...

[@travelgirlbigworld4837]

This worked very well for me. Thank you. I wish I could give you a thumbs up for each time I use this lol

[@matthewthurner8063]

Hey great tutorial! Where was this when I needed it! Welcome aboard Matt, I really enjoyed this and love how you get right to the fix.

[@engrsajidrehman]

You are life savor..... Thanks for the tips...

[@dftwitch]

This actually worked, you saved me hours of pain. thank you!

[@GoofyGufz]

Holy molly are you a genius? it's working ! Thank you very much ! i ws struggle like 6 hours before your video suddenly pop up in my google search and help me fix it.

[@monatoma1075]

God bless you, man!!! Really helpful video! thank you!

[@othmanothman5418]

you are amazing man thanks a lot after looking in all over the Internet you are the only one who gave me the solution

[@rizwanurrahman8917]

Your instructions were really useful man! You just got me out of some serious panic. It was this rich text editor. Thanks a lot and God bless you..

[@elegantthemes]

That's great! Glad we could help! 😊

[@5upern4tural]

Increasing the php memory limit solved my problem! Thank you so much!

[@jamesashberry2179]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Been pulling my hair out, got my hosting provider on to this, getting very annoying - and then I found this and it's resolved! Thank you!

[@thejonathangoetz]

Thank you for an efficient, well-scripted and well-produced video. The plugins fix got my site back up. Cheers.

[@JBautistaA]

It took me 4 fucking hours to figure this out on my own and other resources. This helped the most. Thanks.

[@53rB14n]

Helped a lot, since I got many site errors which I was unable to fix. Seems like bad plugin prevented me from loading a website. I renamed plugins folder, which solved my problem. Now I still need to figure which plugin went bad but nevertheless, this informative video helped me so much. So I liked and follow. Thank you so much!

[@wppluginsmaster]

Thanks man...you are great.

[@muhammedemraan527]

deactivating one of plugins worked for me . Great bro

[@bbentertainer4886]

Man this helped great work brother 👍🙏

[@juanra.ortizp]

I choose the 4:13 solution. Works like a charm!

[@randomtutor2402]

You are amazing! Turned out that Maintenance/Coming Soon Landing Page Plugin was the culprit.

[@Poetic6enius]

I can't tell you how I nearly shat my pants when performing a site backup from cpanel of my website and then accidentally hitting refresh. I thought a majority of my files got corrupted and had no prior backup of the website. Thank god for you

[@Gambit771]

Brilliant. Renaming the plugins folder worked for me. Just have to figure out which plugin it is.

[@SophiaAtkinson]

Thanks for the help!

[@camilop1730]

I like this kind of videos more than videos before

[@yeyaboyoyo]

Hi

[@enismuhovic318]

Fixed! Thaks a lot mate!

[@MrChad818]

Thanks a million for making this video. Total life saver.

[@osandigital]

Thank you so much. The permalink part solved the 500 error for me.

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! I'm glad that did the trick! 😄

[@RafiulIslamTaniks]

ohh I see, it was from elegant themes! that is why it has worked for me! love you always

[@nahiyannasernn]

Thank you so much ! Helped alot

[@rahulverma5088]

3rd one worked for me ....thanks a lot....

[@rose3212]

You literally saved my life ! Thanks

[@TimBeforeAfterPainting]

Thank you kind sir. One of your fixes on this video of yours did the job on my 500 error. Looking now to see if you have a vid on broken images and icons. Thank you very much!

[@RussSaysAction]

You absolute genius, thank you so much dude

[@ombb3206]

this is a very good video. direct, helpful and covers so many possibilities. Thanks dude

[@mdnoyon7442]

Love your last solution bro. I gave up. Thank you for your effective tips. :D

[@lonibarrett]

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

[@Mada_fuka]

You are a genius man, it worked perfectly. Thanks alot...

[@hanjoosten]

great video! This helped me get the website on its feet again. Thanks!

[@ticianosgarbi]

Great video, found the solution I needed! Thank you so much!

[@RussHowePTI]

Thanks so much. THose darn plugins...

[@AysProPlugins]

Hi, thank you so much for the informative video! I have a question: How to edit the htaccess file from the WP dashboard? Which is the safest way to do it?

[@ejiromaroh2681]

Thanks so much, This helped a lot

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! Glad to hear that 👍

[@Accuface2000]

Thank you, after watching your video, I chose to deactivate the plugins which worked like a charm. I had to log into the server to rename the file because my site couldn't be reached. Problem solved within 10 seconds.

[@ArjunSehgalDigital]

Such a big help. thank you so much. you are amazing

[@cofranco3]

awesome video! Mine worked when I renamed the plug-ins folder. I guess i have a faulty one. Thanks again for the video!

[@dellosso9138]

saved my life. thanks a mil!

[@jotaxc]

Thank you very much!! Problem resolved!!

[@ulrichroth4000]

Hallo. Thank you very much. Smart way to identify problem with plugins. :))) Very good

[@yingyingxin]

very useful content!

[@yourshopify-amazon-ecommer1557]

You help me very much!!!!

[@gauravdigital2425]

thanks a lot bro, this has really help me a lot

[@elegantthemes]

You're welcome! 😄

[@delriecoetzee7766]

Thanks man, I appreciate your video, really helped me!

[@x-11116]

Ich bin dir so dankbar!

[@x-11116]

The third one worked for me!

[@themindofceline]

thank you so much for this video!!! I was so freaked out over this cuz I couldnt even access the wpadmin page but then I deleted some stuff via filezilla like you said and it worked again!! I guess I had the wrong/too many plugins for my server to handle. anyway thank you so much!

[@benjamin_rose]

Thank you so much! Helped me get my site back and running!

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! We're so glad we could help! 😊

[@helmysamer9798]

thank you so much this works perfectly for me

[@anwarsheikh1808]

Thanks alot for helping me out!

[@Resume08]

thanks Bro your a lifesaver!!!!!!😇

[@EriksHarjo]

Thank you! You're a life saver :)

[@Widmoos]

Thank you very much! :)

[@silvertone47]

Thanks, worked for me!

[@radiomirchi]

it's worked buddy. Thanks for the help.

[@mohammadranjbar6740]

UR VIDEO SOLVED MY PROBLEM TY

[@dul4135]

Thank you 2nd option worked for me

[@herwigdeleeuw1175]

Thanks, it helped me a lot

[@tahirwaseem4979]

Thank You so much...My problem has solved now.

[@jasontomerlin]

the define memory limit trick worked for me! saved my a$$!!!

[@dmihalina]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOU SAVED MY LIFE

[@AmericaTru]

YAY!! thank you. Fixed it with your help

[@kannansubramanian826]

Yes its worked for me (php Memory limit Method), Thank you for your video. Subscribed and Clicked bell icon

[@aniketmukherjee9867]

thanks a ton, this helped!!

[@ajdash9384]

Thnx dude changing the plugins folder name worked ❤️

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! Glad it worked! 😊

[@studyplanner9790]

you're awesome buddy thanks for the trick to rename the folders.

[@mohsinworld]

This tutorial helps me, my problem was the Slider Revolution.

[@elegantthemes]

Thank you! 😊

[@rohanbasak]

lifesaver for a beginner like me

[@kats7945]

Great tips! The 500 Internal Server error was only on our Admin panel, btw, not on the live site; the 500 server error is now gone after I renamed .htaccess and resaved Permalinks, but received an error on the top of the Permalinks page: "Permalink structure updated. Remove write access on web.config file now!" A new .htaccess file was also NOT generated. I had to manually re-create and save it. I would like to understand what this error is I see on the Permalinks page and how to fix it. We self-host on a windows server. Many thanks!

[@sleepfinder3792]

thanks for saving my life buddy

[@ajeetgupta5570]

Tnx bro you are really great

[@swaraj3473]

Hi, I have WordPress old version, can i replace wp-include files of newer version??

[@whatthehaulindia]

editing php file worked for me! Thank a LOT!!

[@bbbalci]

Deactivating Plugins from FTP by changing name solved my problem. Thanks!

[@ShaunitaNicole]

It worked, thanks!!

[@AlexeyKoval14]

Thanks man ! Problem was in memory limit ! Like

[@DavidTaylorChesterWebDesign]

Got me out of a hole thanks :)

[@jude-the-cat]

Thanks. Editing the wp-config worked for me :-)

[@samschallenbergh5489]

Rename the plugin site and reinstall the plugins worked for me, Thanks alot

[@Definedism]

Our you can simply unplug your rooter for two minutes....It worked for me !

[@israellandes6814]

very helpful, fixed my error. I recommend trying method 3!

[@elegantthemes]

Awesome! I'm glad it helped! 😄

[@jurtrypik]

Hey, i renamed the .htaccess to .htaccess.bak and then i doubleclicked on the file and now i have 2 files there: both .htaccess and .htaccess.bak. Which should i delete?

[@EarthSettler]

Thank you so much, the problem was the memory limit!

[@elegantthemes]

You're welcome! Glad we could help! 😊

[@essambarghsh]

Thank you so much

[@JuzzMe-xu4mu]

Hello, what if I am seeing a ".htaccess" and a ".htaccess101" file?

[@myotogroup3718]

Thank bro for that tutorial

[@xainiphonebpc4540]

thank you so much Bro