Title: 500 Internal Server Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# 500 Internal Server Error

 *  [chrsjensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrsjensen/)
 * (@chrsjensen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-403/)
 * Suddenly I receive the following error when trying to access my admin panel:
 * “Request Timeout
 * This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it 
   should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase‘
   Connection Timeout’.”
 * I suspect that W3 Total Cache is to blame so how do I resolve this issue?
    I 
   am a fairly new to WordPress so please explain in detail if possible.
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [Cary123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cary123/)
 * (@cary123)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-403/#post-6299400)
 * I have had this same problem suddenly. If I disable the W3 Total Cache this error
   does not occur.
 *  [Scott Hartley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/)
 * (@destac)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-403/#post-6299416)
 * It could be more than just W3 but this is the kind of problem that takes more
   than just forum walkthrough to debug.

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Scott Hartley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-internal-server-error-403/#post-6299416)
 * Status: not resolved