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A publisher asked Google’s John Mueller via Twitter about Google Search Console (GSC) reporting 5xx error on their site. This article explores possible reasons why GSC will report having received 5xx errors and solutions.
The tweet said:
“I am getting server error (5xx). My new posts are not indexing. Any suggestion to FIX this?”
The publisher then posted a screenshot of the GSC message:
This is What Causes 500 Errors
500 response messages are what the server sends when there is a critical error that stops the website or web page from rendering.
It sometimes indicates a coding error in the CMS that is causing the page or the entire site to not render. PHP code can be fussy and sometimes something as small as leaving out a comma is enough to break the site.
Which is why it’s always a good idea when editing code to leave a copy of the original file (renamed) on the server and to save a backup copy of the original un-edited file on your computer before editing a different version of that file.
That way if things go bad you can always upload the original and start again.
Other sources of 500 errors are:
Misconfigured .htaccess files
Core CMS config files have wrong information such as database information
PHP version is incompatible with CMS
Code in CMS template was altered in a way that added a mistake
The tweet said:
“I am getting server error (5xx). My new posts are not indexing. Any suggestion to FIX this?”
The publisher then posted a screenshot of the GSC message:
This is What Causes 500 Errors
500 response messages are what the server sends when there is a critical error that stops the website or web page from rendering.
It sometimes indicates a coding error in the CMS that is causing the page or the entire site to not render. PHP code can be fussy and sometimes something as small as leaving out a comma is enough to break the site.
Which is why it’s always a good idea when editing code to leave a copy of the original file (renamed) on the server and to save a backup copy of the original un-edited file on your computer before editing a different version of that file.
That way if things go bad you can always upload the original and start again.
Other sources of 500 errors are:
Misconfigured .htaccess files
Core CMS config files have wrong information such as database information
PHP version is incompatible with CMS
Code in CMS template was altered in a way that added a mistake
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