Help – Website inaccessible – server 500 error

there isn’t one there

should there be one?

Do you have another wordpress installed on your root directory?
Or are there just normal html/php files?

Also just in case, contact your hosting company to see if your server is down.

I don’t have another wordpress install in the root. I do have our backup old website on the same hosting (which doesn’t interfere at all) which is all html and this does still work, so I can’t see it being the hosting, unless there’s something wrong with the sql server – the old site doesn’t use sql.

I replaced the following from the sample wp config .php into the actual config file.

define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');

define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');

define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');

define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

I can now access the wp-admin

Many thanks for all your help – nearly had heart failure there. Have a good evening.