Title: 500 error on PHP pages
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# 500 error on PHP pages

 *  [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/)
 * My site suddenly starting giving me 500 Internal Server Errors. It was working
   earlier today – the last time I touched it – and now it’s gone.
 * Site URL: [http://www.junkfoodforthesoul.com](http://www.junkfoodforthesoul.com)
 * I checked a few links that I could recall to see if it was all pages and the 
   internal pages (such as [http://www.junkfoodforthesoul.com/2006/09/11/nfl-week-1-notes-thursday-sunday/](http://www.junkfoodforthesoul.com/2006/09/11/nfl-week-1-notes-thursday-sunday/))
   are just giving me 404 errors.
 * I tried deleting the .htaccess files, but that didn’t seem to help. I also tried
   to check the error logs, but GoDaddy apparently doesn’t have them enabled at 
   all times. So I enabled them, hit the site a few times and then tried to check
   them through their “CGI Admin” but got a 500 error for that too.
 * Any ideas? I’ve been running fine for months and I haven’t added any plugins 
   or changed the permalink configuration recently. (Using the date/title config.
   Been working fine.)

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 *  [Jonathan Landrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonlandrum/)
 * (@jonlandrum)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453745)
 * It’s probably a GoDaddy issue. Do they have a support system?
 *  Thread Starter [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453876)
 * Go Daddy’s support said they don’t support custom built sites basically, but 
   she said one of their support people poked around and said “something isn’t pointing
   to the right place”.
 *  Thread Starter [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453879)
 * OK, that’s weird the site is back. What’s more weird is the site seems to be 
   working fine yet I never replaced the .htaccess file. Actually I had two files–
   one at the root and one at the /blog/ level. I started at /blog when I was building
   it and then changed the settings to display at the root.
 * I didn’t know which one was the real working one so I downloaded a backup and
   deleted both yesterday while trying to fix the issue. Both are still gone, yet
   the site is working. ???
 *  Thread Starter [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453881)
 * Now that the site is working I can also access the error logs. I see a lot of
   errors, but most everything is “file does not exist”.
 * Is it safe to copy and paste the whole log from yesterday here?
 *  Thread Starter [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453883)
 * Don’t know if this means anything or not, but I haven’t yet removed my old site
   from the server. (A Mambo CMS site.) It isn’t on the root so you have to know
   the path to reach it, but it also gave me a 500 yesterday. Today, of course, 
   it’s back.
 * Don’t know if that helps at all, but I found that to be strange. So I thought
   I would throw that out there in the interest of giving as much info as I can.
 * Thanks.
 *  [Jonathan Landrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonlandrum/)
 * (@jonlandrum)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453891)
 * That’s why I don’t think it was a setting of yours; it sounds like a server problem.
   Perhaps if you cross your fingers all will remain well. ;o)
 *  Thread Starter [junkfood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junkfood/)
 * (@junkfood)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-error-on-php-pages/#post-453922)
 * Thanks. *Fingers crossed*

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