After updating Magento CE, you’ll often hit a few cryptic server issues, such as 503, 500 and 404s.
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
503 Magento error
A 503 error after upgrading Magento is often because the temporary maintenance.flag has not been automatically removed as part of the installation.
Find the file (maintenance.flag) in the root or /public_html/ and delete it. This should bring your Magento site back to life!
500 Magento error
This is due to file permissions. Use the magento cleanup tool, or manually make the following folders writeable.
CHMOD 755 the following:
– magento/index.php
– magento/downloader/
– magento/js/*
Reset your browser cache and cookies.
Login to Magento admin area and clear your cache (System > Cache Management). You should now be back up and running.
For further help, look through our other Magento Error posts or Magento error fixing.
