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My site NOT ACCESSABLE- Internal Server Error? what does this mean?

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I cant view any of the pages of my site, no home page, no subpage.

Here is the message. What does it mean ?


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Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@MY-DOMAIN.com 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.


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The domain Hasnt expired, and neither has my hosting,


What does it mean ?- what does it sound like to you?
#accessable #error #internal #server #site
  • Profile picture of the author hashbury
    Is this a wordpress site? This error could be do to a wide range of things. Its going to be server side and nothing related to the domain being expired.

    If you have a fully managed server you might be able to contact them and see if they can find the problem.

    Also did you make any recent changes to your site?
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    • Profile picture of the author limekyln
      messed up your .htaccess file somehow? delete it or rename it for a bit, then
      just put in a really simple index.html page and then see if that will come up.

      Otherwise get a hold of your webhost and see what the issue is.
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      • Profile picture of the author entry
        it isnt a wordpress file.

        I changed the htacces file.

        How did you realise it might have been that?
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        • Profile picture of the author Caleb D Miller
          I don't know if you have Hostgator but I've experienced that error with hostgator so here's what to do if you have hostgator (look into this anyway).

          I was setting up too many emails for my sites (like support@mysite.com). If I run too many of these at a time it uses a script that runs over capacity on a certain limit on my hostgator account.

          If you have a lot of emails set up on your site, that could be it. Check that, but try to get some chat support from your host.
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      • Profile picture of the author entry
        Originally Posted by limekyln View Post

        messed up your .htaccess file somehow? delete it or rename it for a bit, then
        just put in a really simple index.html page and then see if that will come up.

        Otherwise get a hold of your webhost and see what the issue is.
        Cheers, it was the htaccess file.

        I have edited it, and it was fine.

        Do you know what errors usually are on the htaccess file, which makes the site not work? {as i cant see what the error was}
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    The most common errors in .htaccess files are typos - spelling errors. 'RewiteEngine On' instead of 'RewriteEngine On', etc.

    Second most common is attempting to use a command or directive in the file that isn't allowed. Trying to do a rewrite when mod_rewrite isn't available will cause a 500 error on many servers.
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    • Profile picture of the author entry
      What about leaving blank spaces, at the end of the file?

      so this space at the end of the file.,

      ---------------      ---------------------------
      Redirect 302 /314
      Redirect 302 /46432


      --------------      -------      --------------------


      instead of this (no space)
      ------------------------------------------
      Redirect 302 /314
      Redirect 302 /46432
      --------------      -------      --------------------

      I think I had some space before,
      can the space cause an error?
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    No, whitespace won't cause an error.

    But that's not an exact copy of what is in the file is it?
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    • Profile picture of the author entry
      Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

      No, whitespace won't cause an error.

      But that's not an exact copy of what is in the file is it?
      no, that is a copy of what was at the bottom.

      I deleted that part, and Left the Rest the same... and the error was fixed.

      that is why i asked was it the space as that is the only thing i changed, to solve it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    Well, glad you got it working. Obviously there was something about the blank lines that your server didn't like.
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