Title: Problems when upgrading WordPress?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems when upgrading WordPress?

 *  [alexbulgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexbulgo/)
 * (@alexbulgo)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-when-upgrading-wordpress/)
 * My recent upgrade to WordPress 3.1.4 went smoothly. However, the following morning
   on trying to view my site I received the following error message:
 * Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
   and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator,
   [webmaster@alexbulgo.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-when-upgrading-wordpress/webmaster@alexbulgo.com?output_format=md)
   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. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error was encountered
   while trying to use an Error Document to handle the request.
 * This seems to occur everytime I update the site
 * My hosting company informed me that the permissions for my admin folder were 
   incorrect and corrected them. This got me into the site, however I gained two
   thick horizontal seemingly neverending white lines along the bottom of the theme,
   that meant I could scroll horizontally forever more! Additonally, a 404 error
   was received for the admin login page. I resolved that issue by changing the 
   permissions via Filezilla, but the odd design glitches persisted.
 * I assume that the initial problem was caused by upgrading WordPress. Because 
   of this, or perhaps because of the ‘fix’ in changing permissions, it scrambled
   the theme design? However, I am unclear why the permissions suddenly changed 
   just because I upgraded to the latest WordPress version.
 * I reinstalled the theme but the problem persisted. Finally I gave up and reinstalled
   WordPress totally and saved my theme settings etc to re-upload.
 * Has anyone else experienced theme problems after upgrading WordPress? Clearly,
   if this is a host set-up problem as I suspect it needs to be resolved else I 
   need to host my site elsewhere – I can’t keep re-uploading my site every few 
   weeks!
 * Theme, wordpress or host?
 * Be glad of the thoughts of the more experienced!
 * Alex

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 *  [sublimedzine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sublimedzine/)
 * (@sublimedzine)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-when-upgrading-wordpress/#post-2158783)
 * I had a similar problem. I receive the “Internal Server Error” as well, but only
   when I try to add a new post. All other functions of the site work fine.
 * Haven’t tried any troubleshooting, was hoping to find something here.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [sublimedzine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sublimedzine/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-when-upgrading-wordpress/#post-2158783)
 * Status: not resolved

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