Http500 Internal Server Error Recovery Completed

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I'm so glad that there are so many answers available on the Wealthy Affiliate Community. I was playing with the Functions.php theme file and before you know it, the site is down and I thought OhNo! I haven't backed up anything for over two months! My blood pressure went up and my heart rate quickened. I thought my site was surely doomed!

Luckily, I found that I'm not the only person who encountered this problem and the community responded and suggested using FTP. I haven't used FTP for awhile so, I went through some instructions on that to use Filezilla. Once there, I went to another web-site I had with the original theme function file and transferred to my local drive and then transferred back to the site that I just corrupted. All is fine now. It's great to find all the answers here at my fingertips.

FTP access: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/ftp-filezilla-connecting-to-domain-via-ftp

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Great, I understand you, as you may know my computer crashed 2 weeks ago. but I got it back now :)

What a dreadful feeling it must have been to have the computer crash. Anyway, it's good be back online as well.

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Glad to know all is fine. And now YOU know what to do and may one day be able to help someone else with this problem.

Yes, I know that if I didn't find out how to fix it, others would respond like the tutorial below

Check out my blog on this error and how to fix :
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/dc574/blog/the-white-screen-of-death-wsod

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Hi DC574,

Nice to know how to solve this. I will visit your blog when I have such a problem

Terenzia

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Thanks. This is a great tutorial, although I was looking for anything that said HTTP500 first and didn't think of something as dramatic as the "White Screen of Death", so I didn't find your tutorial at first.

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Yes thanks, and it is a GREAT place.
Brenda

Thank you for the reminder to back up my site. Glad it worked out well for you.

Yes this is a wonderful community

Glad you were able to work it all out.

Wow, that was a close one, glad you recovered!

Glad you were able to get help!!

Yep, I'm glad it all worked out.

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