Title: error 404/500
Last modified: August 15, 2017

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# error 404/500

 *  [einga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/einga/)
 * (@einga)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404500/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * i have downloaded wordpress using mamp countless of times and each time i get
   the error 404.
    after installing wordpress and choosing a username and password
   it brings me to the login page but after entering these details it gives the 
   following error This page isn’t working
 * localhost is currently unable to handle this request.
    HTTP ERROR 500 i have 
   done everything from changing the wp-config.php file to changing the document
   root but nothing. can anyone please please help me may i add i am not very good
   with computers so go easy with the terms when you reply. many thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ferror-404500%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [einga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/einga/)
 * (@einga)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404500/#post-9411820)
 * i am now not able to even access the wordpress dashboard and when i did before
   everytime i refreshed the page it would bring the ‘page cannot be found’ error.

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## Tags

 * [error 404](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-404/)
 * [error 500](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-500/)

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 * Last reply from: [einga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/einga/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-404500/#post-9411820)
 * Status: not resolved

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