Title: Minify Error/Internal server error 500
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Minify Error/Internal server error 500

 *  [Davidian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-odd-duck/)
 * (@the-odd-duck)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/)
 * I set up wordpress multisite on my site a little while ago(about a month)… and
   recently google has started handing me internal server error 500 responses for
   my pages when it trys to crawl them.
 * Around the same time I got this response from W3 total cache
 * Recently an error occurred while creating the CSS / JS minify cache: No sources
   to serve
 * No clue what that means… I’ve searched on here and it seems to be generally unknown..
   the only responses I have seen from devs were “this will be sorted in next version”
   but they were posts from 9 months ago…
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Davidian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-odd-duck/)
 * (@the-odd-duck)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/#post-4641039)
 * Just an update – this still isn’t resolved even though I removed multisite and
   went back to normal
 * There are loads of other posts about this now and no responses from Devs..
 *  [athyg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athyg/)
 * (@athyg)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/#post-4641082)
 * Hi there Odd Duck,
 * Any update on this? I’m having the same problem. Getting 500 internal server 
   error when activate plugin.
    I’m using the X WP theme & found this (below) on
   forum. Have implemented suggested settings, but still nothing.
 * ‘Make sure it’s CSS Tidy, then following these config:
 * Disable inline JS & CSS
    Enable ‘combine only’
 * Uncheck pretty much everything else on the W3 Cache minify page.’
 * Seems the problem could be linked to the ‘minify’ settings….
 * Let me know if you have any luck getting this resolved.
 *  Thread Starter [Davidian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-odd-duck/)
 * (@the-odd-duck)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/#post-4641084)
 * I accidently wiped my site a few days ago, but had a backup
 * A couple of the minify cache files didn’t upload and now I don’t appear to be
   getting any minify errors…
 * pressing the empty cache button didn’t work but perhaps navigating in your FTP
   client to where it stores the minify cache might help.
 * If it happens again I’ll let you know
 * This has also fixed the issue with the google crawler returning internal server
   error 500’s
 *  Thread Starter [Davidian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-odd-duck/)
 * (@the-odd-duck)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/#post-4641086)
 * hmm my bad, still getting some internal server errors from google after all.

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 * Last reply from: [Davidian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-odd-duck/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minify-errorinternal-server-error-500/#post-4641086)
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