Title: Internal 500 error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Internal 500 error

 *  [sdollen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdollen/)
 * (@sdollen)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error/)
 * I was testing a few things on my blog tonight…all of a sudden, I get an “Internal
   500” error. It seems that the server is up and running….
    any ideas what this
   might be?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error/#post-100754)
 * An Internal 500 error basically means that something happened on the server end.
   You can find details on what “something” is in your server error logs. We’ll 
   need to know what that “something” is before anyone can help.
 *  Thread Starter [sdollen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdollen/)
 * (@sdollen)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error/#post-100790)
 * It was related to the .htaccess file. Which is strange since I didn’t do anything
   to it. The only thing I can think of, is that I started looking at the “Options”
   in the Admin Panel and started noticing some error messages.
    Then, all of a 
   sudden – 500 internal error messages. Not sure what all happened. But, I deleted
   the .httacess file and everything went back to normal.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error/#post-100802)
 * The .htaccess file was probably blocking the PHP script’s access to an important
   file.

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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error/#post-100802)
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