Joomla Troubleshooter. Error 500 after theme installation

This tutorial shows how to resolve issue with error 500 after the Joomla 1.6 template installation.

1. Open templates/theme###/templateDetails.xml file and make sure theme name is the same as templates/theme### directory name. Theme name is locate in the tag <name></name>

2. Make sure theme name and theme directory title don’t contain any special characters (#, $, %, ^, & etc) or spaces

3. If you installed template using Discover option access your database and open  jos_template_styles table. Make sure theme### name is the same as the theme directory title and <name> tag value in the templateDetails.xml file.

Otherwise click Edit icon and change the theme name