Title: plugin update and installation failure Last modified: June 13, 2018 --- # plugin update and installation failure * [MsFrankie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msfrankie/) * (@msfrankie) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-and-installation-failure/) * Cannot update any plugins – receive message: * Update Failed: 500 Internal Server Error Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. * Also cannot install a new plugin. Uploaded a plugin with ftp and it did not appear in the installed plugin section of the back end. * Server error log says: * ``` 20130825T080917: www.echolakeassociation.net/wp-content/themes/weaver-ii/index.php PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function weaverii_get_header() in /hermes/bosweb/web136/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-content/themes/weaver-ii/index.php on line 15 20130826T132126: www.echolakeassociation.net/wp-admin/tools.php PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message '/hermes/bosweb/web136/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-content/uploads/c4ca4238a0-backups/echolakeassociation-net-default-1-database-2013-08-12-23-00-36.zip doesn't exist' in /hermes/bosweb/web136/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/classes/schedule.php:740 Stack trace: #0 /hermes/bosweb/web136/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/admin/actions.php(14): HMBKP_Scheduled_Backup->delete_backup('/hermes/bosweb/...') ``` * etc… there is a long list of similar lines… Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-and-installation-failure/#post-10396880) * Those errors are from 5 years ago? Your site is still working, so delete whatever plugin you uploaded (it might be only partially there) and see how it behaves after that. * Thread Starter [MsFrankie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msfrankie/) * (@msfrankie) * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-and-installation-failure/#post-10397486) * Oops. I sent the wrong end of the file… * 20180612T211652: [http://www.echolakeassociation.net/index.php](http://www.echolakeassociation.net/index.php) PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_VARIABLE or T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES or T_CURLY_OPEN in /hermes/bosnacweb02/bosnacweb02bf/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-config. php on line 93 * 20180612T211658: [http://www.echolakeassociation.net/index.php](http://www.echolakeassociation.net/index.php) PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_VARIABLE or T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES or T_CURLY_OPEN in /hermes/bosnacweb02/bosnacweb02bf/b1363/ipg.elpapo41/wp-config. php on line 93 Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘plugin update and installation failure’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [plugin update failure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-update-failure/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [MsFrankie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msfrankie/) * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-update-and-installation-failure/#post-10397486) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics