Title: Server error 500 after recent plugin update
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Server error 500 after recent plugin update

 *  [businesspointca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businesspointca/)
 * (@businesspointca)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-after-recent-plugin-update/)
 * After updating the wordfence plugin I am getting a “sever error 500” when trying
   to gain access to the admin section of my wordpress install.
    I did not update
   any other plugins so beleive that this caused the issue. The front end of the
   site is unaffected but the backend displays the error. Please advise. This was
   the only plugin that required updating so I am thinking wordfence is the issue.
   It was wordfence support recommended me to reset the permalinks but I cannot 
   do that without access to the backend. Can you advise how to do that resetting
   the links to default through ftp? As well, with this break the links I have now
   established on my site? Or will the permalinks self-redirect?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-after-recent-plugin-update/#post-5689004)
 * Please uninstall the Wordfence plugin by renaming the Wordfence folder in the
   plugins directory See if this fixes the backend access. If it doesn’t I need 
   to se a copy of the file .htaccess. Make sure and use pastebin to post here.
 *  Did you enable falcon caching by any chance?
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [businesspointca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businesspointca/)
 * (@businesspointca)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-after-recent-plugin-update/#post-5689018)
 * Renaming the wordfence folder did not fix the issue.
    I had a backup of the site
   before upgrading the wordfence plugin and uploading those files did not make 
   a change either. I reinstalled the old version and all seems to be back to normal.
   Please advise.

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 * Last reply from: [businesspointca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businesspointca/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-after-recent-plugin-update/#post-5689018)
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