Title: Random 500 Internal Server Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Random 500 Internal Server Error

 *  [godrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godrox/)
 * (@godrox)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/)
 * For a couple weeks now I’ve been getting “500 Internal Server Error” at random
   times when viewing my blog’s home page. I updated to the latest version of WP(
   2.1.3) and updated every plugin that had an update, but I still get the same 
   errors. If the page loads fine, I just hit refresh and I’ll get the error. Wait
   a second and refresh again and the page loads fine again. I checked my server’s
   error log and it’s blank, even after I refreshed my blog and got the 500 Internal
   Server Error multiple times. Does anyone have any ideas of how to troubleshoot
   this?
 * My URL: [timschmoyer.com](http://timschmoyer.com/)

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 *  Thread Starter [godrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godrox/)
 * (@godrox)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559263)
 * Anyone at least have an idea of how I can start addressing this issue?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559270)
 * 1) Check with your host?
 * 2) What plugins are you running? Have you tried disabling them and seeing if 
   the problem persists?
 *  Thread Starter [godrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godrox/)
 * (@godrox)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559334)
 * I checked with my host. They said the operating environment is fine and that 
   the problem was with my code, which they obviously couldn’t help with.
 * These are the plugins I’m running:
    — Adsense-Deluxe — Akismet — Contact Form][—
   DupPrevent — Executable PHP widget — Feedburner Feed Replacement — Google Sitemaps—
   IImage Browser — KG Archives — Kramer — No WWW — Optimal Title — Picasa Web widget—
   runPHP — Search Everything — Sidebar Widgets — SimpleTags — SRG Clean Archives—
   Subscribe me — Subscribe To Comments — Text Link Ads — Viper’s Video Quicktags—
   WordPress Database Backup — WP-Cron
 * I’ve disabled some of them and still have the same problem. I’ve been using most
   of these plugins for a long time now and haven’t had a problem until just a couple
   weeks ago. I recently added WP-Cache to try to improve the speed of my site, 
   but have it disabled now because of this problem. Unfortunately, the problem 
   persists.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559356)
 * nothing leaps to mind, but make sure you’ve checked for updated/current versions
   of all those (perhaps especially, the Google Sitemap one).
 *  Thread Starter [godrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godrox/)
 * (@godrox)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559369)
 * Yeah, I updated all of them already… This is so frustrating.
 *  [jalancast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jalancast/)
 * (@jalancast)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559441)
 * I had the exact same problem. I found a thread on some forum that basically said
   that if any plugins you have are caching your own dynamic php (I was using WP-
   Cache), then you’ll have this “Internal Server 500” error. I disabled and then
   deactivated the WP-Cache plugin and it was fixed.
 * Hope that helps.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-500-internal-server-error/#post-559441)
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