Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Error 500
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Error 500

 *  [kenc3366](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenc3366/)
 * (@kenc3366)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/)
 * I get a error 500 internal server error when trying to activate plugin. Was working
   fine until upgrade to latest version. Also unable to edit posts if the plugin
   is in the plugins folder. I have to delete the plugin to get dashboard working
   again.

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 *  [janepity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janepity/)
 * (@janepity)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668956)
 * I have the same problem. It is the third time I upgrade the plug-in and I still
   can’t make it work. When I try to activate it, I get the message “Error 500 –
   Internal server error”
 * I already asked WordPress and my Hosting Server about this, tried all the proposed
   ways to solve it, but still didn’t work.
 * Can you please help me?
 * Thanks
 *  [exonen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exonen/)
 * (@exonen)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668957)
 * Check the error logs it will give you more info what can cause the Error 500.
 *  [janepity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janepity/)
 * (@janepity)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668958)
 * But I don’t have access to the error logs. I asked the hosting server about it
   and the have limits for it and said I can’t have access to it.
 * I’ve tried a lot of things to get rid of this error, none of them worked and 
   my admin panel crashes. So I reset the plug-ins through FTP to have back the 
   access to the admin panel, and get a message on the top of the page that says:
 * “Please update the database of NextGEN Gallery. Click here to proceed.”
 * I click to proceed and get the following message:
 * “Could not find NextGEN Gallery database tables, upgrade failed !
 * Upgrade finished…”
 * Any help?
 * Thanks
 *  [CSB78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csb78/)
 * (@csb78)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668962)
 * I had a problem, turned out forcing use of php5 by editing the .htaccess file
   solved it.
 *  [janepity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janepity/)
 * (@janepity)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668963)
 * Someone gave me this clue too, but as I am not a programmer, I don’t know how
   to edit .htaccess. What/how exactly should I edit in the file?
 * Thank you for the help.
 * Jane
 *  [janepity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janepity/)
 * (@janepity)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1668964)
 * Hey, I got it!
    I added the line “AddType x-mapp-php5 .php” to the .htaccess 
   file and it worked.
 * Thank you all for the help!
 *  Thread Starter [kenc3366](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kenc3366/)
 * (@kenc3366)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1669030)
 * Hi
    Sorry I forgot to come back to this. I found that during the plugin upgrade(
   NextGen Gallery) for some reason the .htaccess file was removed, so the site 
   reverted back to PHP4. Replacing the file with solved all the issues I was having.
   Thank for the help!
 *  [josephting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephting/)
 * (@josephting)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-error-500/#post-1669084)
 * I got this problem too! I checked error_log and it says about the memory_limit.
 * I changed from 32M to 48M and it’s running properly again.

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