Title: Internal Server Error when trying to activate theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Internal Server Error when trying to activate theme

 *  Resolved [larock56](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larock56/)
 * (@larock56)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/)
 * Please help. I cannot activate my theme. I’ve done everything from reinstalling
   wordpress (three times), to reinstalling the theme (3 times).
 * I keep getting the internal server error when I try to activate my theme and 
   then cannot access wp-admin. Once I go in through ftp and change the theme I 
   can access wp-admin again.
 * I am hosting on godaddy. They’re telling me that it’s a wordpress issue but my
   base install of WP works fine. It’s only when I try to activate a them that I
   purchased (which by the way worked and then just stopped working)
 * Please help

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 *  [ladymacbeth9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladymacbeth9/)
 * (@ladymacbeth9)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581801)
 * May I ask what the theme name is?
 *  [ladymacbeth9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladymacbeth9/)
 * (@ladymacbeth9)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581802)
 * Also your version of wordpress.. is it 2;9.2 or is it 3?
 *  [manishk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manishk/)
 * (@manishk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581973)
 * I am also having the similar problem. I am using a custom theme. It was all working
   fine. While I was making some edits to the theme. The index pages stopped working.
   While the others are working fine. I was having supercache plugin installed. 
   I wondered that might be causing the problem so I uninstalled and deleted all
   the files of supercache.
 * But still no luck. I still think this can be some problem related to cache. But
   not sure whats causing this.
 * Regards
    Manish
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581974)
 * Internal server errors are usually described in more detail in the server error
   log. If you have access to your server error log, generate the error again, note
   the date and time, then immediately check your server error log for anything 
   useful. If you don’t have access to your server error log, ask your hosting provider
   to look for you.
 *  [manishk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manishk/)
 * (@manishk)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581978)
 * Hi MacManX,
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * After having spent the whole day for the problem, I finally resolved my problem.
 * In my case the problem came within one of the plugins I am using that is:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-tag-fixes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-tag-fixes/)
 * When I tried to debug the code, I found that this was missing the category at
   home page and so the error. But I just wonder the error should have been some
   kind of PHP error message. Not sure why the error message was Internal Server
   Error.
 * When I provide this a fixed category, it works fine for me.
 * Regards
    Manish

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/internal-server-error-when-trying-to-activate-theme/#post-1581978)
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