Title: HTTP 500 error
Last modified: October 5, 2017

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# HTTP 500 error

 *  [mgrabski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mgrabski/)
 * (@mgrabski)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-33/)
 * Hi, my website has gone down, please can you advise why this may have happened
   and what I can do to resolve it; The message appears as follows:
    HTTP 500 error
   That’s odd… the website can’t display this page The site may be undergoing maintenance
   or could have a programming error. Try this Go back to the last page Try contacting
   the website’s owner

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 *  [tanja111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanja111/)
 * (@tanja111)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-33/#post-9558320)
 * Did you talk with hosting company?
 *  Thread Starter [mgrabski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mgrabski/)
 * (@mgrabski)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-33/#post-9558365)
 * Hi, I am having difficulty in contacting the person who is managing the hosting
   company for my website? Please can you advise me how I can transfer my website
   to a new hosting company, so I can manage this myself, as I have spent a long
   time building this website up and don’t want to lose it? Thank you
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-33/#post-9559154)
 * Errors like this are logged. Check the error log on your server. If you can’t
   find the log, please contact your host.
 * Meantime, 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)
 * You can also try this: Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of 
   the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one
   to identify the source of your troubles.
 * If you cannot access wp-admin, there are other ways to [deactivate plugins](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F).

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

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 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-33/#post-9559154)
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