Title: Server 500 error upon executing installer
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Server 500 error upon executing installer

 *  Resolved [eesger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eesger/)
 * (@eesger)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/)
 * hello,
    I need to move this (old.. I know) WordPress site. I’dd like to first
   offline test updating it, but moving it to my local testing server isn’t working,
   upon excuting the installer.php script I get a server 500 error with this in 
   the log file:
 *     ```
       [Thu Jul 07 13:17:51 2016] [error] [client 192.168.0.3] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '\x8f\xfa\xc4fX' (T_STRING) in /home/vhost/xxx.nl/public_html/installer.php on line 462
       [Thu Jul 07 13:17:51 2016] [error] [client 192.168.0.3] PHP Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  '\x19' (ASCII=25) state=0 in /home/vhost/xxx.nl/public_html/installer.php on line 462
       ```
   
 * I also tried to test it on an other server I manage, same error!
 * My test server runs PHP 5.4.17 the other webserver I tried to install runs PHP
   5.4.30
 * Can you please help me?
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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552051)
 * Hmmm that is odd. The Google results for that error all talk about PHP version.
   How old is that package or what version of the plugin did you use to create it
   with?
 * You might try changing the encoding of the PHP file to utf8 via program like 
   Notepad++
 *  Thread Starter [eesger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eesger/)
 * (@eesger)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552077)
 * It was installed about two hours before I did the post, so I expect it was the
   most recent version
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552192)
 * Have you happened to try the file on another server or environment, just to rule
   that out? If for some reason your having issue on multi-environments feel free
   to [submit a ticket](https://lifeinthegrid.com/support) and I can take a closer
   look at it for you…
 *  Thread Starter [eesger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eesger/)
 * (@eesger)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552194)
 * Yes, on two servers, as I mentioned in the first post:
 * > My test server runs PHP 5.4.17 the other webserver I tried to install runs 
   > PHP 5.4.30
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552195)
 * My bad… feel free to submit a ticket and refer to this thread if you want.

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-500-error-upon-executing-installer/#post-7552195)
 * Status: resolved