Here’s the scenario: You just changed the URL to your website. Everything seems to be going great, until you go to edit one of your pages. You click “Edit with Divi,” and you get nothing but a white screen with this terrifying message:
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator at whoever@whatever.com to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
This will happen on every page when you try to use the Divi builder. This is the infamous Divi Internal Server Error. But don’t worry! There’s a simple hack you can use to fix this. Here’s a step-by-step on how to do it:
Go to your WordPress dashboard, then in the left-side column, click General>Permalinks.
2. Scroll down until you see a blue “Save changes” button. Click it.
This problem is created when you change URLs because when you fire up Divi, it still has your old URL in its database, so it’s looking for that URL. When the old URL doesn’t match up with the new one, you get the Divi Internal Server Error. But when you click “Save changes” on the permalinks page, WordPress goes through the database and changes all the old URLs to the new URLs. Then like magic the Divi Internal Server Error is gone!
A related problem is the WordPress website is working, but the login page doesn’t work and gives a similar error. You can read about how to change your WordPress website URL manually in your database, but suffice it to say, it can get complicated. Typically, you’ll want to hire a professional developer or web development agency (such as Brain Jar, of course) to handle this for you. Otherwise, you should level up your skills with online resources (such as the Free Code Camp) or vocational training programs (such as WP Code Camp).
How does the WordPress database work?
WordPress, being a content management system (CMS), utilizes a relational database management system (RDBMS) to store and retrieve data. By default, it relies on MySQL as the RDBMS, but it can also work with other database systems like MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
The WordPress database structure is designed to organize and manage various types of content, configurations, user data, and other essential information. It consists of multiple tables, each responsible
