Http error 500 when accessing the admin area

[lsb57]

I was changing some settings then left and when I came back, my admin session expired. I tried to log back on and suddenly started getting error 500.

Turns out the problem was:

• changing the DEFAULT LANGUAGE from English
• and missing all non English language files under /my_admin_folder\includes\languages

So, the easy fix is to open my configuration table and change the record with configuration_key DEFAULT_LANGUAGE back to en. Or clone the admin English related language files and rename according to the default language you used.

[DrByte]

Or just add ?language=en to your browser's admin URL to force it into english for the current session.