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Questions tagged [http-code-500]

500 Internal Server Error

A generic server error message, given when no other specific error message (HTTP status code) is suitable.

Examine the server's error log to get more information about this type of error.

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Recovering a lost website with no backup?

Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites: http://blog.stackoverflow.com http://www.codinghorror.com (Yes, yes, I absolutely should have done complete offsite backups.…
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Why is Google Webmaster Tools crawling invalid URLS and showing 500 errors?

Google Webmaster tools is reporting 12k+ 500 errors. Eeek! None of the URLS are valid- they all contain www.youtube.com. First, why is Google crawling these URLS if they don't exist? I supplied a sitemap, and they are of course not in the sitemap.…
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Is it possible to send an automatic email to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 error page?

Is it possible to send an automatic email that includes details about the requested page to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 internal server error page? That way the web master could act more quickly to solve the problem. This is a general…
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What is adding frog characters to my URLs?

While browsing the "Crawl Errors" section of Google Webmaster Tools, I discovered a set of very strange 500 errors in reference to my site: I was able to track down what these characters are, and apparently they are the first two characters in the…
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Meaning of Crawl errors

My question is about definition of Crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools. Crawl errors is devided into few sections. Let's first consider HTTP section. I assume that all broken links in this section was somehow found by crawler, this is not the…
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htaccess ErrorDocument 500 not working

I have a site whose .htaccess file contains: ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.html The 404 redirect works just fine, but when I encounter a 500 Internal Server Error, it gives the default Internal Server Error…
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Rewrite rule to show as directory using .htaccess

I want to implement a rewrite rule in my .htaccess file to show a specific url as a directory of my server. See the code below I written, RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ ?page=$1 [NC] This will rewrites urls like www.mysite.com/abc/ to…
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Why can't I verify my website with Google?

Here's the error I receive when trying to verify: Verification failed for http://oracleoflegends.com/ using the Google Analytics method (1 minute ago). Your verification file returns a status of 500 (Internal server error) instead of 200…
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The presence of a .htaccess configuration causes a 500 error (even if it is blank)

My htaccess file is giving my webpage a 500 error and I do not understand why ... this is the code: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule…
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file need to go through a php page using .htaccess

I'm looking for a way to convert this type of URL: http://www.example.com/dl/F5EGD6 Into http://www.example.com/dl/files/my_file.zip using a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with F5EGD6. I tried ith this htaccess file : RewriteEngine…
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webmaster tools 500 crawl error for asp faceted navigation that does not exist

I am getting around 2,500 type 500 URL errors in Google webmaster tools. These pages are faceted navigation results that can not be reached by a site visitor. These pages do not exist. We are using faceted navigation with the Volusion platform…
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Disallow all user agents except one using .htaccess?

I've been struggling to get this .htaccess working. The aim is to disallow all user agents besides my app. The app sends a GET request with a user agent of lets say 'AcmeUpdater'. Whenever I try to navigate to any file in the folder, I get a 500 -…
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Joomla couldn't create config files and now PHP files give 500 errors on my hosting

I have been playing with a php CMS site for someone that I am ready to deploy but am running into a couple problems that I assume to be hosting related. I have been developing and playing with it localy and deploying to a hosting environment…
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Is there additional overhead for status code 500s?

We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly handle this with a 404, since the URL without the…
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WordPress MySQL Performance

I have a website (www.americanbankingnews.com) that gets 40,000-50,000 page views today. It's currently sitting on a dedicated quad-core Xeon server with 8GB of ram. The site is powered by WordPress and MySQL (sitting on the same server) and I'm…
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