Title: Getting Error Code : 500 Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Getting Error Code : 500 * [Anirban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/investmoksha/) * (@investmoksha) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/) * I started getting error code : 500 since yesterday morning. {this is the message that came with the error } 1. Check .htaccess file – it should not have strings starting from “php_value”, “php_flag” * 2. Check permissions on files and folders. 777 — is not correct permissions even if your script manual tells you it is. Correct permssions are: 644 on files 755 on folders * I contacted my hosting provider, they told me that my .htaccess contains many additional redirects and was not correct. After disabling wordfence, the website is working fine. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/) * (@wfsupport) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053148) * Is that a wordfence error? Our errors usually have the wordfence logo on them. Did you enable falcon caching? * tim * Thread Starter [Anirban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/investmoksha/) * (@investmoksha) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053166) * Yes i had enabled falcom caching after i activated the plugin (using wordfence since last 2 months). This problem started since yesterday morning (Indian Time). After I deactivated wordfence the problem did not occur any more * [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/) * (@wfsupport) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053168) * Are you wanting to try and troubleshoot this or do you wish to leave the plugin deactivated? I suspect that the htaccess file was modified incompletely. Also, can you confirm you got that error message from Wordfence or…? * tim * Thread Starter [Anirban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/investmoksha/) * (@investmoksha) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053171) * Will this issue go away when there is the next update of your plugin? I am not that technically well versed, I can copy paste my .htaccess, which my hosting provider had provided me before I deactivated wordfence, if that will be of any help. * [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/) * (@wfsupport) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053175) * I would be wary to say anything like that since I don’t really know what the problem is. If you could paste the htaccess file here (or use pastebin if it is a large file, that would be great. * tim * Thread Starter [Anirban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/investmoksha/) * (@investmoksha) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053176) * #WFIPBLOCKS – Do not remove this line. Disable Web Caching in Wordfence to remove this data. Order Deny,Allow #Do not remove this line. Disable Web Caching in Wordfence to remove this data – WFIPBLOCKS #WFCACHECODE – Do not remove this line. Disable Web Caching in Wordfence to remove this data. AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/ svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json < IfModule mod_headers.c> Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml AddType text/html .html_gzip AddEncoding gzip .html_gzip AddType text/xml .xml_gzip AddEncoding gzip .xml_gzip SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.html_gzip$ no-gzip SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.xml_gzip$ no-gzip Header set Vary “Accept-Encoding, Cookie” #Prevents garbled chars in cached files if there is no default charset. AddDefaultCharset utf-8 * #Cache rules: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on RewriteRule.*–[ E=WRDFNC_HTTPS:_https] RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip RewriteRule .*–[ E=WRDFNC_ENC:_gzip] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(?:\d+=\d+)?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (?:\/ |\.html)$ [NC] * RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp\-postpass|wf_logout|wordpress_logged_in |wptouch_switch_toggle|wpmp_switcher) [NC] * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([ ^\/]*)(.*)$ RewriteCond “%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/wfcache/%{HTTP_HOST}_%1/% 2~%3~%4~%5~%6_wfcache%{ENV:WRDFNC_HTTPS}.html%{ENV:WRDFNC_ENC}” -f RewriteRule\/*([ ^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)\/*([^\/]*)(.*)$ “/wp-content/wfcache/%{ HTTP_HOST}_$1/$2~$3~$4~$5~$6_wfcache%{ENV:WRDFNC_HTTPS}.html%{ENV:WRDFNC_ENC}”[ L] #Do not remove this line. Disable Web caching in Wordfence to remove this data – WFCACHECODE RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\. php$ – [L] * # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L] * RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ – [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L] # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!- d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] * # END WordPress * Thread Starter [Anirban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/investmoksha/) * (@investmoksha) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053177) * this file was the one before i disabled wordfence. * [jealousGod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jealousgod/) * (@jealousgod) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-code-500-501/#post-6053258) * Same problem on our website. Started two days ago. 500 Internal server error. * Our hosting service said that WordFence is triggering incorrect code in the . htaccess file. 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