Title: Site down – internal error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Site down – internal error * Resolved [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/) * (@creative-i) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-down-internal-error/) * Tried to access my site this am and got this error: * The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. * Earlier it gave me a Error 500, isn’t this a permissions problem? * B Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-down-internal-error/#post-925574) * check your error logs, they will tell you what went wrong. * Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/) * (@creative-i) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-down-internal-error/#post-925576) * Yes, agreed, unfortunately they don’t seem to be available. * Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/) * (@creative-i) * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-down-internal-error/#post-925581) * Okay, problem solved! A corrupted .htaccess file. * B Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Site down – internal error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [internal-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal-error/) * [misconfiguration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/misconfiguration/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/) * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-down-internal-error/#post-925581) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics