HTTP ERROR 500

I have the same issue on 2 sites.

co-op.place staging site – I updated only yoast to 9.03 and get a 500 server error accessing any pages

orleans-office-space.ca – I updated yoast to 9.03, gutenberg and contact form 7 with the same – a 500 server error accessing any pages.

I put orleans-office-space.ca into debug mode and confirmed my suspicions that the yoast update was the culprit.

Through SFTP, I renamed the yoast plugin folder and the errors were gone.

I renamed the yoast plugin folder back and it was deactivated and showed it needed an update to 9.03. It seems there was a problem during the update. When I performed the update again, an 500 error occurred and it would not activate the plugin.

We are hosted on GoDaddy

I have no access to the server logs. I would have to contact GoDaddy for that.

figured it out…

a couple weeks ago we had another 500 error that seemed to be caused by a wordfence plugin update that failed to complete. Applying the next update solved the issue.

On this site, somehow the wordfence plugin existed in the plugins folder version 7.1.15, but did not appear on the admin plugins page. Somehow it was causing the issue with the yoast update failure to update.

I pulled production to staging. I guess this process in godaddy installs the plugins in the directory, so the wordfence plugin now showed on the admin plugins page. I updated wordfence successfully and then the other plugins. All updated fine this time.

The 500 server error is gone. Now I need to check my other sites.

Hope this helps ??

@kevinberwick7 Can you please confirm you are using the most recent Yoast v9.1? You can learn more about updating here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-can-i-update-my-free-plugin/

?If you update to the most current version of Yoast SEO, does this resolve the 500 error?

This thread has been marked as resolved due to lack of activity.

You’re always welcome to re-open this topic. Please read this post before open a new request.

Thanks for understanding!