Title: admin-ajax.php 500 error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# admin-ajax.php 500 error

 *  Resolved [Ankur Gupta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aglow/)
 * (@aglow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-500-error/)
 * I have 3 websites hosted on my server. Whenever I restart my server, one of these
   three website starts having this 500 error
    I can see these in log files
 * “GET /wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wordfence_logHuman&hid=81EB9AA71479BDBD7B5499C993B30A29&
   r=0.34779228060506284 HTTP/1.1” 500 20
 * there are many frequent requests like this.. and the the requested page is shown
   as empty page coz of this error.
 * Please help.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-500-error/#post-6241824)
 * Hi,
 * Try disabling “Live Traffic” and see if the errors go away. You may want to leave
   it off for better performance if it is a feature you do not use.
 * [http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Live_traffic#Resource_Usage](http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Live_traffic#Resource_Usage)
 * -Brian
 *  Thread Starter [Ankur Gupta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aglow/)
 * (@aglow)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-500-error/#post-6241826)
 * Will try this… I have made the changes.. will check for few days, will let you
   know if error is seen again..

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 * Last reply from: [Ankur Gupta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aglow/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-500-error/#post-6241826)
 * Status: resolved