Title: Server error 500
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Server error 500

 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/)
 * I have been using my site all morning and everything was working very nicely 
   when BANG – this happens
 * _Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
   and was unable to complete your request.
 * Please contact the server administrator, webmaster @ shadows.os42.com 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 error was encountered while trying 
   to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * I wasn’t changing anything or doing anything in particular just the occasional
   post/edit that kind of thing.
 * I also read something in the forums here recently about this being to do with.
   htaccess but I cannot see my .htaccess file in my ftp program anymore.
 * Any ideas as to what/how/why this is happening and how to fix it?

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 *  [lbessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbessant/)
 * (@lbessant)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166418)
 * Do you have access to the server’s logs? You’ll need to look at the Error log.
   Or ask your host – it could actually be a server problem.
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166419)
 * I cannot access anything from the front end. Can get to ftp.
    Other sites on 
   my domain are working. It seems to be limited to this subdomain alone.
 * To have the site up and running for full 24 hour period at the moment is proving
   to be very difficult.
 * I have a feeling this is not the webhost though – any idea how I can get to my.
   htaccess through ftp [using WS_FTP Pro]
 *  [lbessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbessant/)
 * (@lbessant)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166420)
 * I don’t use that particular app, but there should be a setting to “show hidden
   files on remote host”, or a setting to add a switch to the list command it uses–
   add `-al` which will show hidden files.
 * Does sound like it could be a borked .htaccess file
 *  [lbessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbessant/)
 * (@lbessant)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166421)
 * Aha! [This post](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=13862#post-81482) 
   might help.
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166422)
 * Ahhh, I worked it out at the same time as you were finding all this for me.
    
   Thanks lbessant 🙂
 * It seems my .htaccess file went nuts and needed a lay down for a while.
 * It seems to be all sorted now, although I would like to know why it did that.
 * Thanks again 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500/#post-166422)
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