Title: Internal Server Error Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Internal Server Error * Resolved [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/) * I wanted to change some settings so that the site will open not on the default page but on the “about” page. So I went (from the admin panel) to Settings -> General and first changed Site address (URL) from trading-forex.ro to trading- forex.ro/about/, saved the changes, and checked to see if is ok. The site was entering in the home page and not on the about as I wanted. I wend back to General- > Settings and changed WordPress address (URL) from trading-forex.ro to trading- forex.ro/about. This change proved to be not so inspired because after that the site opened only with text – no interface whatsoever – and when I tried to go back in admin or click something on the faulty-loading site I was met with this error: * “ * Internal Server Error * The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. * Please contact the server administrator, [webmaster@trading-forex.ro](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/webmaster@trading-forex.ro?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 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. * “ * I’ve checked you documentation I could not resolve the issue. wp-config doesn’t contian the address and .htaaddress contained the word “about” that I’ve added, as I said before, but modifying did not help. * What can do? In which file and what do I have to change to get things back? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [curtismchale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtismchale/) * (@curtismchale) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339796) * You need to go in to your wp-config.php file and add: * `define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://trading-forex.ro');` `define('WP_HOME', 'http:// trading-forex.ro');` * That should get the site back up. You can read more about it: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_address_.28URL.29) * Then to actually make it do what you want go to Setting/Reading and change the home page to a static page of ‘About’. * Thread Starter [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339814) * Thank you but the problem is only partially resolved, meaning I cand now access my admin page (the “Site address (URL)” and “WordPress address (URL)” are stoned) and, no matter what I click in the blog’s page, I still receive that error. * I look at the .hraaccess file and it looks like this, if you are king enough to look * “ # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /about/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond%{ REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /about/index.php [L] * # END WordPress * RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^trading\-forex\.ro$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.trading\-forex\.ro$ RewriteRule ^about\/$ “http\:\/\/trading\-forex\.ro\/”[ R=301,L] “ * I took note of the modification that I should have done in order to change the front-page. * Thread Starter [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339824) * I observed that, for example, If I click on about (from the blog page) it fetches the address “[http://trading-forex.ro//about/”](http://trading-forex.ro//about/”);– note the double slash. * However, if I delete one slash and make it “[http://trading-forex.ro/about/”](http://trading-forex.ro/about/”); it still would not work. * Hope that this info and the one from the perevious post will give you some clues. * Thread Starter [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339846) * So I managed to eliminate the double slash problem by deleting the last slash from “define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘[http://trading-forex.ro/’](http://trading-forex.ro/’););” in wp-config but the behavior remains the same. * Thread Starter [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339878) * Well, any news? * [curtismchale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtismchale/) * (@curtismchale) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339881) * Yeah a trailing slash isn’t supposed to be in there, which is why I didn’t include it. I’d go to setting/permalink and click save (twice) so that the permalinks are set properly. I’m sure I could mess with the .htaccess file but I just let WordPress do it for me through the permalinks settings. * Thread Starter [2ResolveAproblem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2resolveaproblem/) * (@2resolveaproblem) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339883) * That did the trik – now in .htaaccess there were automatically generated the right settings. * Thanks a lot! * [curtismchale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtismchale/) * (@curtismchale) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339886) * You’re welcome. Please mark the ticket as resolved. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Internal Server Error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * ["internal server error"](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal-server-error/) * [WordPress address (URL):](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-address-url/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [curtismchale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtismchale/) * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-76/#post-2339886) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics