Title: Internal 500 Error
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Internal 500 Error

 *  [balancestudio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/balancestudio1/)
 * (@balancestudio1)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error-6/)
 * ran a theme check and received a bunch of warning errors regarding <? tags needing
   to be updated to <?php — made corrections and theme check ran clean of all these
   types of errors but now won’t load. when attempting to visit [http://www.balancestudio.com](http://www.balancestudio.com)
   there is now a 500 Internal Error. PLEASE HELP!

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 *  [Bill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chubbycrow/)
 * (@chubbycrow)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error-6/#post-6080869)
 * You’ll need to temporarily switch to another theme (like Twenty Fifteen) until
   you get it sorted.
 * If you can’t access your admin pages, you’ll need to use an [FTP client](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)(
   like FileZilla), or your host’s cpanel (or File Manager) and navigate to the 
   files on the server.
 * In your WP installation there, find `wp-content/themes` and rename the active
   theme’s folder to something like `mytheme-hold`, or delete it altogether. That
   will disable the theme and hopefully allow you to get back into WP admin. WP 
   will use a default WP theme in its place (probably Twentyfifteen).
 *  Thread Starter [balancestudio1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/balancestudio1/)
 * (@balancestudio1)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error-6/#post-6080912)
 * I’m able to login to the Admin Dashboard – and I have access to my hosts (Yahoo)
   File Manager. The ‘<?php’ updates that I made to the code do not show up when
   I have reopened the files through Editor. But the errors to not show up in the
   theme check anymore ? Website still not working.
 * Attempted to download another Theme (widget compatible) and got the following
   error > Downloading install package from [https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/customizr.3.3.20.zip…](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/customizr.3.3.20.zip…)
 * Download failed. error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message
   digest algorithm
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error-6/#post-6080914)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-my-wordpress-version?replies=5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-update-my-wordpress-version?replies=5)
 * this thread is similar to error message you just got.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-500-error-6/#post-6080914)
 * Status: not resolved

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