Title: Installing/activating plugins causes error 500
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Installing/activating plugins causes error 500

 *  Resolved [Mr.Nathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnathan/)
 * (@mrnathan)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-23/)
 * Hi,
 * Am haveing a problem with activating alot of the plugins. When I install my plugins
   by ftp client and then try to activate them it goes to a error 500 – Internatl
   server error. So i went to my server provider for help and they said that my 
   wordpress was installed fine and that it could be a version issues, but i dont
   think so becase buddypress is updated. So what else could it be. I am also using
   default theme.
 * Thanks

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 *  [alm06130](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alm06130/)
 * (@alm06130)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-23/#post-1588167)
 * There are many raisons to have error 500: I happened to have such an error due
   to bad transfert mode of my FTP client for mo files.
    Such files are to be transfered
   as binaries, my client was wrongly setup on ASCII tranfert instead of automatic.
   Re-transfering files in binary mode fixed the case. Hope this can help you…
 *  Thread Starter [Mr.Nathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnathan/)
 * (@mrnathan)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-23/#post-1588305)
 * Hi,
 * Srry that didnt work either. What FTP client do you use, i sue filezilla becase
   its free. I even get the error when i try and change the background for some 
   images. Could it be soemthing else.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [Mr.Nathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnathan/)
 * (@mrnathan)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-23/#post-1588334)
 * Hi,
 * I called my provider and told me that i needed to update my php and that was 
   all. And he was correct konw am good to go.
 * Thanks

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 * [Activating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activating/)
 * [Downloading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/downloading/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mr.Nathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrnathan/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-23/#post-1588334)
 * Status: resolved

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