Title: HTTP 500 Error after installing theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# HTTP 500 Error after installing theme

 *  [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/)
 * Hi,
 * I realize there are many threads already started on this topic. My issue is that
   I am very ‘green’ and most of the solutions are steps past where I need to begin.
   This is my issue:
 * I was searching for a new theme for our website & when trying to ‘install’, I
   kept getting a HTTP 500 error, no matter which theme I looked at. This occurred
   for several days. I went onto support>forums & it was suggested to deactivate
   recently added plug-ins (‘theme test drive’ seemed to be the culprit, but I also
   had ‘Content Aware Sidebar’). I did this, and was finally able to install the
   theme. Immediately I was not able to login or even to look at my site as a viewer.
   I went back to forums, & found advice to install FileZilla, uploaded all files,&
   now I don’t have any idea what to do with them. I see where people talk about“
   I went into -example- file & fixed it”. I wouldn’t know what to look for, or 
   what would be wrong. Is this novice information already available somewhere &
   I’ve somehow missed it? Believe me, I’ve searched for it.
    I am running WP 3.5.1.
   My site is [http://www.communityhomeschoolcenter.com](http://www.communityhomeschoolcenter.com)
   If I need to include anymore info, please let me know. Thank you in advance for
   any help!

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 *  Thread Starter [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849128)
 * Cakifo is the name of the theme I installed.
    ty
 *  Thread Starter [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849129)
 * I turned off friendly error messages & now:
 * homepage returns a white page, no error message now.
    /wp-admin.php returns white
   page /about returns this Error 404 message:
 * Not Found
    The requested URL /about was not found on this server.
 * ——————————————————————————–
 * Apache Server at [http://www.communityhomeschoolcenter.com](http://www.communityhomeschoolcenter.com)
   Port 80
 * I don’t know any other pages to go straight into. I guess my next step is to 
   install Firefox & see if that shows me anything…
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849134)
 * > I turned off friendly error messages & now:
 * What do you see when you turn the error reporting ON?
 *  Thread Starter [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849183)
 * “Display a notification about every script error”
 * Is this what you were referring to? I didn’t see a box for ‘enable error reporting’.
   This was the closest I could find. I searched IE help for how to do it & the 
   procedure it gave said it wouldn’t work on my OS.
    I enabled that box, reloaded
   the page, & still nothing. Just a blank page.
 *  [Rajesh Soni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajeshsoni/)
 * (@rajeshsoni)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849184)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress‎](http://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress‎)
 *  Thread Starter [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849187)
 * I was searching my files for error files, found one in ‘wp-includes’, also found
   in that folder a file called ‘pluggable-deprecated’, & the word “deprecated” 
   in other places. Should I post these files?
 * I read the codex page. I’ll have to reread it & about wp-config.php , not sure
   how to use it.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849188)
 * >  Should I post these files?
 * No, thank you. And stay out of all WordPress core files.
 *  Thread Starter [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * (@xanderlily)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849189)
 * Got it.

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 * [theme install](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-install/)

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 * Last reply from: [xanderlily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xanderlily/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-500-error-after-installing-theme/#post-3849189)
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