Title: HTTP Error 500 after changing site address to https
Last modified: April 6, 2018

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# HTTP Error 500 after changing site address to https

 *  Resolved [readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/)
 * (@readon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/)
 * Hello!
 * Recently I’ve set up a blog using wordpress. It’s been working until I changed
   the site addres in settings from http:// to [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/?output_format=md).
   I did it because I have got a certificate from cloudflare and when I was using
   browser to add https:// everything was working.
 * I tried everything – deleting .htaccess, removing plugins, themes and using fresh
   versions of wp-admin and wp-includes.
 * Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhttp-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Renee Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reneesoffice/)
 * (@reneesoffice)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10153843)
 * Hi [@readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/)
 * Let’s see if we can restore the site to the orignial state and go from there.
   Are you able to access the database entries to restore the Site and WordPress
   address at the http:// version?
 *  Thread Starter [readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/)
 * (@readon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10153968)
 * Hello [@reneesoffice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reneesoffice/), thank
   you for your answer.
 * If you ask about access to MySQL then yes, I’ve got that but unfortunately I 
   don’t have any back ups from yesterday. Or to be specific any backups, because
   this site has been online for 4 days.
 *  [Renee Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reneesoffice/)
 * (@reneesoffice)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10154105)
 * Hi [@readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/),
 * Thanks for the info. Are you able to edit the database to reset the Site URL 
   and WordPress URL? Here’s more on how to do that:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database](https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database)
 * In terms of restoring the site, you might be able to check with your host to 
   see if they have a copy saved to restore (some hosts make backups as well).
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [Renee Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reneesoffice/).
 *  Thread Starter [readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/)
 * (@readon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10154838)
 * I have actually did that. I changed those entries in the database but it didn’t
   work.
 *  Thread Starter [readon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/readon/)
 * (@readon)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10154998)
 * Thank you [@reneesoffice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reneesoffice/) 
   for help. It have finally worked. It turned out that that it was the hosting’s
   provider fault. Anyways, thank you for your help and I’m really sorry for wasting
   your time. 😉

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

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-500-after-changing-site-address-to-https/#post-10154998)
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