Title: The dreaded Internal Server Error Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # The dreaded Internal Server Error * [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/) * Running an older version of WP and am getting the following error on log in. I suspect that it’s plug in related based on past posts but I’m not sure. Anyone having this at the moment? I obviously can’t disable any plugins but I can try deleting them from the server. Any thoughts? There are a bunch up there (including WordPress.com stats which I guess COULD be the same as wp-stats which has given some people this problem before…) * > Internal Server Error > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable > to complete your request. > Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error > occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. > More information about this error may be available in the server error log. > Apache Server at [http://www.xxxxx.com](http://www.xxxxx.com) Port 80 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225406) * Tried deleting that plugin and it didn’t fix anything. Tried deleting a few more and got all sorts of errors about missing files (google analytics dashboard, wp-backup) so at least I was able to see something different… Any thoughts? * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225410) * Couple of other things I tried that didn’t work: deleting my custom theme and creating a php.ini file with memory=20MB * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225413) * Get rid if that php.ini file. 20M is nowhere near enough. Try: – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/ themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever file management application your host provides. * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or phpMyAdmin. * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of your current version of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225415) * I tried removing and reuploading some things and now the log in screen itself says the following on top. Ugh. What does it mean * > Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output > started at /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/search-and-replace/ > search-and-replace.php:1838) in /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-login.php > on line 337 > Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output > started at /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/search-and-replace/ > search-and-replace.php:1838) in /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-login.php > on line 349 > Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output > started at /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/search-and-replace/ > search-and-replace.php:1838) in /home/content/07/4657207/html/wp/wp-login.php > on line 351 * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225416) * Reset the plugins folder. * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225417) * I just tried that but now it’s giving me tond of errors mentioning the search and replace plugin, but that one is there. Ack it’s acting like it doesn’t see it. Annoying. * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225418) * Got it back to the internal server error by eliminating a couple of plugins. Gonna try resetting the plugin folder but I can’t log in to the admin area so I’m not sure what good it will do. Thanks * Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * (@buskerdog) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225420) * I think that worked! Gonna have to check some more later… Thanks for all your help Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘The dreaded Internal Server Error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [error 500](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-500/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dreaded-internal-server-error-1/#post-3225420) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics