Title: Error 500 while install
Last modified: June 19, 2018

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# Error 500 while install

 *  Resolved [basslh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basslh/)
 * (@basslh)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-500-while-install/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve made wordpress websites before but for some reason this new one won’t work.
 * I’ve created a MySQL database, I’ve uploaded the wordpress directory, and now
   I’m trying to do the quick install process, but when I got to ~/wp-admin/install.
   php, it goes to ~/wp-admin/setup-config.php then nothing happens (Chromium says
   http error 500).
 * I then set all files and directories permissions to 755, but I get the same result.
   
   So I edited the wp-config.php manually but I still get this error.
 * Am I missing something?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-500-while-install/#post-10414846)
 * Enable wp_debug and wp_debug_log and after an error, look at wp-content/debug.
   log to see if anything gets logged there. [https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [basslh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basslh/)
 * (@basslh)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-500-while-install/#post-10415155)
 * Thanks for your reply. With the debug_log I was able to see that there were errors
   in a lot of files in the wp-includes directory. After replacing the files one-
   by-one I just re-uploaded all the directory content from the wordpress archive.
   I think it’s working now!

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 * Last reply from: [basslh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/basslh/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-500-while-install/#post-10415155)
 * Status: resolved

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