"500 Internal Server Error". Error description
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If you see this kind of error, then your web server encountered an
unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request by
the client for access to the requested URL. This is a 'catch-all'
error generated by your web server. Basically something has gone
wrong, but the server can not be more specific about the error
condition in its response to the client. In addition to the 500
INTERNAL SERVER ERROR notified back to the client, the Web server
should generate some kind of internal error log which gives more
details of what went wrong. It is up to the operators of your Web
server site to locate and analyse these logs.
Any client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) goes
through the following cycle when it communicates with your Web server:
* Obtain an IP address from the IP name of your site (your site URL
without the leading 'http://'). This lookup (conversion of IP name to
IP address) is provided by domain name servers (DNSs).
* Open an IP socket connection to that IP address.
* Write an HTTP data stream through that socket.
* Receive an HTTP data stream back from your Web server in response.
This data stream contains status codes whose values are determined by
the HTTP protocol. Parse this data stream for status codes and other
useful information.
This error occurs in the final step above when the client receives an
HTTP status code that it recognises as '500'.
Resolving 500 errors - general: this error can only be resolved by
fixes to the Web server software. It is not a client-side problem. IT
IS UP TO THE ADMINISTRATORS OF YOUR WEB SERVER SITE TO LOCATE AND
ANALYSE THE LOGS WHICH SHOULD GIVE FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE
ERROR.