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I've been using Mamp 3.5 to create a Wordpress site locally since last week. But all of a sudden I am getting this error while loading:

localhost:8888/wordpress : "The localhost page isn’t working localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500"

I have no idea what is wrong and what is causing this error. Solutions I've tried already:

  • Change ports to 80 and 3306
  • Re-install MAMP
  • Checked my hosts file for the localhost settings
  • Tried using older version of PHP, i.e. 5.6
wogsland
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    Error 500 is usually a programming error. Check your error logs for a more detailed error message. – aynber May 16 '16 at 19:06
  • I am sorry but I am totally new to this. Where can I find the logs? – Ned May 16 '16 at 19:19
  • From the **[mamp docs](https://documentation.mamp.info/en/documentation/mamp/)** : `The web server (Apache) starts by default on port 8888, the database server ( MySQL) on port 8889. ... All log files are stored in: /Applications/MAMP/logs/ .` A 500 will leave something in error.log on a normal apache (not MAMP), chances are that file exists at the location provided. – YvesLeBorg May 16 '16 at 19:22
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    This is the last log recorded in apache_error.log: [Tue May 17 01:36:54 2016] [notice] Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.10 PHP/7.0.0 mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/0.9.8zh DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.22.0 configured -- resuming normal operations – Ned May 16 '16 at 20:08
  • Thanks for telling me about the logs. I figured it out, there was a problem in my functions.php file – Ned May 16 '16 at 21:43

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I have been smashing my head for a while and all the solutions I found on internet didn't help. Finally i did that:

tail -n 20 /Applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log

You might have a typo... :P

I hope it helps

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For me was to revert the port to 8888. Was following a tutorial sying to change the default port to 80. By reverting to the default one it worked.

Posting anyway in case someone lands here after 4 years.

Marua Elba
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