Title: W3 Cache Plugin crashed website
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# W3 Cache Plugin crashed website

 *  [daynewilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daynewilliams/)
 * (@daynewilliams)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-plugin-crashed-website-1/)
 * After enabling page cache my website was a lot faster which was great.
 * But after enabling settings at the 1min 46sec mark of this video my website crashed:
   [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57BOt3BZjA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57BOt3BZjA)
 * My website now reads
 * “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable 
   to complete your request.
 * Please contact the server administrator at root@localhost to inform them of the
   time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
 * More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”
 * ————–
 * We tried this but it failed: [http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/)
 * Renaming the plugins folder to deactivate plugins that is.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 * [crashed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/crashed/)
 * [website crashed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/website-crashed/)

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 * Last reply from: [daynewilliams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daynewilliams/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-cache-plugin-crashed-website-1/)
 * Status: not resolved