internl server error 500 on attempted install

Hello!

In most cases, a 500 error means that something is going on with the server, like it also specifies there, so you’ll have to contact your hosting company’s support.

The issue is normally fixed by finding out what the actual problem is. 🙂

To do that, you should try to set your site in debug mode by changing this in your wp-config.php file:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

Remember to set it back to false when you’re done!

If that doesn’t help, you’ll need to check the error logs on your server to find the actual error message. You might not have them available, so if not you’ll need to ask your hosting company for assistance in finding them.

That will let you see what the actual error message is, and when you find that, you’ll be able to fix whatever the problem turns out to be.

Not the error that you see. That’s just an “informative” (yeah, I know it’s not really) page telling you that there is some generic server-side error.

The error logs will give you a precise error message with details of where it’s occured. All servers keep logs of errors, and you need to find that log file in order to find the actual error message.