Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] 500 Internal Server Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] 500 Internal Server Error

 *  Resolved [Emilian Robert Vicol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byrev/)
 * (@byrev)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/)
 * I try to Empty All Caches and i get this “500 Internal Server Error” and is completed
   after 10-20 attempts. Errors occur only for blogs with many cache folders (10,000
   articles).
 * —
    “dbcache” folder structure appears to be up to 2 leves, generating 65535 folders
   00-ff/00-ff. In this folders i have only 1 or 2 files.
 * maybe a 4096 folder structure is sufficient:
    0-f/0-f/0-f or 00-ff/0-f or 0-f/
   00-ff
 * Create a folder for storing a single file is a waste of resources and a structure
   too large, very difficult to removed (try to delete a directory tree structure
   with 65,535 folders and files)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546591)
 * Submit a bug submission from the support tab of the plugin.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546597)
 * Your submission still has not arrived.
 *  Thread Starter [Emilian Robert Vicol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byrev/)
 * (@byrev)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546616)
 * [@fredericktownes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) not 
   working:
 * The original message was received at Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:20:17 -0700
    from localhost.
   localdomain [127.0.0.1]
 *  —– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
    <****@w3-edge.com>(
   reason: 553 sorry, your mail was administratively denied. (#5.7.1))
 *  Thread Starter [Emilian Robert Vicol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/byrev/)
 * (@byrev)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546654)
 * and , anyway, i solve the problem in my way:
    [http://byrev.org/bookmarks/w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error/](http://byrev.org/bookmarks/w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error/)
   i modify plugin with the necessary changes to solve the problem.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546792)
 * I have my own implementation already thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error-1/#post-1546792)
 * Status: resolved