Also this is the error I get when I try to activate a plug in: This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.
When I try to update a plug in this is what I get:
Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.4.0.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Deactivating the plugin…
Removing the old version of the plugin…
Could not remove the old plugin.
Plugin upgrade failed.
It sounds like you have permissions set incorrectly.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Hmm checked on that and that wasn’t the problem