# Github webhook delivery for github push event fails with 500 error

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/github-webhook-delivery-for-github-push-event-fails-with-500-error/10406>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 16, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/github-webhook-delivery-for-github-push-event-fails-with-500-error/10406 "2017-02-16T13:35:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex-gozefo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@alex-gozefo](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/alex-gozefo)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/github-webhook-delivery-for-github-push-event-fails-with-500-error/10406/1 "2017-02-16T13:35:02Z")

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The circle build was starting correctly until I made some change to circle.yml file. It’s failing even after that code was reverted. The github webhook for push action returns 500 response with body “An internal server error occurred.”

Account settings  
OS - Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)  
2 containers (no parallelism)

Request URL: [https://circleci.com/hooks/github](https://circleci.com/hooks/github)  
Request method: POST  
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
Expect:  
User-Agent: GitHub-Hookshot/886c556  
X-GitHub-Event: push

Response Body  
{“message”:“An internal server error occurred.”}

Response Headers  
Connection: keep-alive  
Content-Length: 48  
Content-Type: application/json  
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:49:12 GMT  
Server: nginx  
X-Circleci-Request-Id: 1f532606-83da-4fde-926f-c68134a62dc0

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/github-webhook-delivery-for-github-push-event-fails-with-500-error/10406/2 "2018-06-18T11:34:35Z")

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