Title: Internal Server Error 500 – login.php Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Internal Server Error 500 – login.php * [jimcallaghan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimcallaghan/) * (@jimcallaghan) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/) * Hi, I may be covering old ground here, but I have read dozens of posts and can’t get my issue resolved. I’m a noob to the wordpress community but not completely wet behind the ears… * I got a blog set up and running successfully, and then decided I wanted it at the root of my site, not in /blog. Tried installing in the same manner (just new directory) from the wordpress source files and ran through the installation from front to back. No luck – server errors and 404’s. * I stripped out the entire content of the remote site, began fresh after having also trashed the databse and users from MySQL. Complete fresh start. Ran install. php and retrieved the automaed password. clicked on login (to enter ‘admin’ and new passowrd) but got ‘Internal Server Error 500’. Stripped out all over again, trashed all files and databses and went to place back in /blog from the beginning. Now the site [http://www.mysite.com/blog](http://www.mysite.com/blog) appears OK with the default settings and CSS etc, but if I click Log In, I get the Internal Server Error 500 again. * I’ve been on to the hosts asking them to check setup at their end and they are adamant that nothing has changed in my setup since my first install (the only one that actually worked). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. * “Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [webmaster@jimcallaghan.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/webmaster@jimcallaghan.com?output_format=md) and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.” * Last few error logs: [Wed Sep 10 10:33:55 2008] [error] [client 85.158.139.99] File does not exist: /home/jimcalla/public_html/500.shtml [Wed Sep 10 10:33:55 2008] [error] [client 85.158.139.99] Premature end of script headers: /home/jimcalla/ public_html/wp-login.php SoftException in Application.cpp:246: Directory “/home/ jimcalla/public_html” is writeable by group Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/) * (@samboll) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/#post-855038) * Hi, If it’s the blog in your profile, I’m not getting an error on the log in page. Did you fix it? * [tarafawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarafawn/) * (@tarafawn) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/#post-855317) * Hi * I upgraded automatically to 2.8 yesterday for avenariusmusic.com/updates (new blog, I’ve only updated the theme, no other changes) and am now getting the same server error 500 when trying to login to admin. * Here’s the full message: * Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [webmaster@avenariusmusic.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/webmaster@avenariusmusic.com?output_format=md) and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. * Did you ever solve the bug? * Any help would be much appreciated… * [additive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additive/) * (@additive) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/#post-855319) * Hi, * I have exactly the same issue as this (from a first time install into the domain root). Can someone please shed some light?! * Thanks * [Kailash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kailash1/) * (@kailash1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/#post-855320) * If you are getting same error message in logs then it is due to incorrect permissions. If your host has enabled suPHP on the server, make sure that you have set 644 permissions to your files. * For your information, if suPHP is enabled on the server then you can not assign more than 755 permissions to folder and more than 644 permissions to files. Just set 644 permissions via FTP. It should fix your problem. * Kailash Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Internal Server Error 500 – login.php’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [internal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal/) * [server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 4 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Kailash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kailash1/) * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-500-loginphp/#post-855320) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics