Title: Hide login plugin causes internal server error
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Hide login plugin causes internal server error

 *  [Rinni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinni/)
 * (@rinni)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-login-plugin-causes-internal-server-error/)
 * Installed this “so called” plugin, but broke my whole site!!
 * I now only get :
 * > **Internal Server Error**
   >  The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
   > and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator
   > and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have
   > done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may 
   > be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error
   > error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * I deleted the sites database and the plugin files, overwritten the wordpess core
   install
    except for the wp-content files. But this didn’t even help. What to 
   do now? Please advice as why this happened and how to fix it!
 * thanks
 * my advice for now… Do not install this!

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 *  Thread Starter [Rinni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinni/)
 * (@rinni)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-login-plugin-causes-internal-server-error/#post-7745890)
 * I’m very sorry.
    I would like to take my words back! I should have read the installation
   guide first. **** A great tip dough… is that you explicitly point out to users,
   on the plugins wordpress.org splash page , that they need to change the config.
   php file BEFORE they press ACTIVATE PLUGIN !!! **** Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Rinni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinni/)
 * (@rinni)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-login-plugin-causes-internal-server-error/#post-7745901)
 * Nope… did some database rebuilding, file replasing… nothing helped unfortunatly.
   After a clean install, I tried it again following the instructions closely but
   still can’t get it to work. I also see the .htaccess is beeing changed trough
   the progress, I think this is throwing everything upside down on my install. 
   Because when I replace it with a basic WP htaccess file the installation seems
   to be fixed and I can then uninstall the plugin properly.
 * Probably something stupid I’m missing?? … So my conclusion. If your not familiar
   with the some php, MySQL and how the Htaccess works, don’t bother installing 
   this.
 *  [dreamwave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dreamwave/)
 * (@dreamwave)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-login-plugin-causes-internal-server-error/#post-7745927)
 * For anyone that encounters the same problem.. the reason that this happens is
   due to changes made to .htaccess.
 * To roll back changes, delete the plugin from its folder and then replace the 
   code in .htaccess (in the main website folder) to this:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 *  [indiadamjones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indiadamjones/)
 * (@indiadamjones)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-login-plugin-causes-internal-server-error/#post-7745936)
 * Worked like a charm! Gee wiz! Thanks a ton. Fastest repair ever. I feel real 
   sorry for the poor sap(OP). Gosh, that sounded awful up there.
 * Adam Newdow
    [WordPress Guy](http://megabotix.com)

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