Error 500 after activating plugin

Hi all!

I came here from this Elegant Themes blog post.

I downloaded and activated the plugin and instantly upon pressing the “activate” button I’m kicked out of my management pages with “Error 500: Internal Server Error”.

I removed the plugin files from my wp-content/plugins folder and disabled all plugins through MySQL commandline with
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = '' WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins';

However, the site is still not responding. Please advise!

**Edit** A quick view in the logs reveals an error with a header setting in the .htaccess file
After commenting out the following lines the site is responsive again.

#Header unset Pragma
#Header unset ETag
#FileETag None

• This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by fraeco.