{"id":2480,"date":"2013-03-05T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/03\/05\/cannot-publish-site-internal-error\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:56:49","slug":"cannot-publish-site-internal-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/cannot-publish-site-internal-error\/","title":{"rendered":"This site cannot be published to the specified location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_builder_304_builder-publishing-troubleshooting.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_builder_304_builder-publishing-troubleshooting.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"This site cannot be published to the specified location. Internal Server Error has occurred on the remote server. Please contact the server administrator.\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>When you are editing your Premium Web Builder site you may get the following error when you try to republish the site.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">This site cannot be published to the specified location. Internal Server Error has occurred on the remote server. Please contact the server administrator.<\/pre>\n<p>This error is caused by either bad file permissions or an .htaccess rule in the directory of your builder site.<br style=\"clear: both;\"><\/p>\n<h2>How to fix the error<\/h2>\n<p>To fix the Internal Server error causing the builder to fail to publish, you will first want to rename the .htaccess file in your builder directory.<\/p>\n<h3>Rename the .htaccess<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/how-to-log-into-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here for info\" rel=\"noopener\">Login into your cPanel.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/using-file-manager-in-cpanel\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here for info\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to the File Manager.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find the document root for your Builder site and click Go.\n<p class=\"alert\"><strong>Important!<\/strong> Make sure you have the Show Hidden Files check box checked.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_builder_304_01-rename-htaccess.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Renaming the .htaccess in cPanel.\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_builder_304_01-rename-htaccess.png\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"100\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Rename the .htaccess to something like .htaccess.old and save the file. <br style=\"clear: both;\"><\/p><\/li>\n<li>Republish the Site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Fix the file permissions<\/h3>\n<p>In the event the Builder will not publish due to internal server error and the .htaccess was renamed, try having the permissions fixed on your server. Our <a href=\"\/support\/amp\/how-to-get-great-technical-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here for how to contact support\" rel=\"noopener\">tech support<\/a> can run what\u2019s called a \u201c<em>FixPerms<\/em>\u201d on your files. This will reset the file permissions for your files to the default 644 for files and 755 for folders. This will also reset the \u201c<em>Ownership<\/em>\u201d of he files to your cPanel user.<\/p>\n<p>If for whatever reaason you cannot fix the error, our <a href=\"\/support\/amp\/how-to-get-great-technical-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here for how to contact support\" rel=\"noopener\">tech support<\/a> is more than happy to look into fixing the error for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are editing your Premium Web Builder site you may get the following error when you try to republish the site. This site cannot be published to the specified location. Internal Server Error has occurred on the remote server. Please contact the server administrator. This error is caused by either bad file permissions or<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/cannot-publish-site-internal-error\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This site cannot be published to the specified location | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you get the This site cannot be published to the specified location. Internal Server Error has occurred on the remote server. 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