Title: 500 Server Error Message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# 500 Server Error Message

 *  [nycgraphix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nycgraphix/)
 * (@nycgraphix)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-error-message/)
 * Recently I switched web hosts to hostgator and I am now having very strange error
   messages pop up in my browser after I try to edit any post. I get a 500 Server
   Error message and after countless emails back and forth to customer support they
   finally suggested that I post in this forum.
 * Also when I am trying to delete a post wordpress asks if I want to delete it 
   and when I click on yes the line of which I tried to delete highlights in red
   and stays that way. If I hit refresh I get the 500 Server Error message again.
 * Then I immediately go back into my admin panel and the post that I tried to delete
   is still there.
 * Could this be a database error of some kind? On my last host this never happened
   so I just have no idea what to do.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-error-message/#post-561009)
 * Did you update your permalinks after the switch?
 *  Thread Starter [nycgraphix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nycgraphix/)
 * (@nycgraphix)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-error-message/#post-561022)
 * Yes I updated from an IIS server to a linux server so I was able to update the
   permanlinks right off the bat and no problems when updating.

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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-error-message/#post-561022)
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