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Problem:
I want to enable wpml string translations and the site is crashing when I do.
[error] 14588#14588: *815 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught WpOrg\Requests\Exception\InvalidArgument: WpOrg\Requests\Cookie::__construct(): Argument #1 ($name) must be of type string, integer given in /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/Requests/src/Exception/InvalidArgument.php:29 Solution:
Upgrading PHP to version 8+ helped Relevant Documentation:
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I want to enable wpml string translations and the site is crashing when I do.
I need to remove the plugin from filesystem in order to get the site back up.
stack trace from error log (from dev environment):
2023/04/25 08:05:32 [error] 14588#14588: *815 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught WpOrg\Requests\Exception\InvalidArgument: WpOrg\Requests\Cookie::__construct(): Argument #1 ($name) must be of type string, integer given in /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/Requests/src/Exception/InvalidArgument.php:29
Stack trace:
#0 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/Requests/src/Cookie.php(83): WpOrg\Requests\Exception\InvalidArgument::create()
#1 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(472): WpOrg\Requests\Cookie->__construct()
#2 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(352): WP_Http::normalize_cookies()
#3 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(634): WP_Http->request()
#4 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/REST/Status.php(82): WP_Http->get()
#5 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/REST/Status.php(47): WPML\Core\REST\Status->pingRestEndpoint()
#6 /data/EW/httpdocs/httpdocs_dsd" while reading response header from upstream, client: 84.243.225.220, server: hidden link, request: "GET /wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s= HTTP/1.1", upstream: "hidden link:", host: "www.dsd.test", referrer: "hidden link"
Also, If you have a staging site, what are your results when testing with a minimal environment? There is a possibility a third-party plugin along with WPML might be causing this error.
Thank you, everything looks ok so far, only recommendation is to increase your WP MEMORY LIMIT to 256M or higher as 40M is below our minimum requirements for WPML.
I would like to request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to your site to test the issue.
(preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible)
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I often use the Duplicator plugin for this purpose: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
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As I did not have the FTP credentials and the string translation plugin crashes the site I was able to create a duplicator package to test locally.
It looks like the theme EWIM is possibly causing this error with WPML.
Go to Appearance-> switch your theme to a standard theme temporarily (twenty23 for example) and attempt to enable WPML String Translation, does it work ok?
thanks for checking. I've tried and it still crashed as soon as I activated the string translation. That was with a clean install for the default twenty23 theme.
I think there must be something wrong with the setup for cookies when it's not a user sent request. At least that's what the error stack trace comes down to.
I was able to activate WPML string translation on the site by going to Plugins->Add new->Commercial tab-> Install & activate without any fatal errors at the moment.
Sorry Bobby, the site still crashed. I'm going to delete the plugin again, and send the stack trace again. I need to give a training on the site this afternoon so please keep that in mind in case you want to re-activate the plugin.
stacktrace:
[Tue May 09 08:51:37.836434 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 4122] [client 84.243.225.220:59276] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught WpOrg\\Requests\\Exception\\InvalidArgument: WpOrg\\Requests\\Cookie::__construct(): Argument #1 ($name) must be of type string, integer given in /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/Requests/src/Exception/InvalidArgument.php:29\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/Requests/src/Cookie.php(83): WpOrg\\Requests\\Exception\\InvalidArgument::create()\n#1 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(472): WpOrg\\Requests\\Cookie->__construct()\n#2 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(352): WP_Http::normalize_cookies()\n#3 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-http.php(634): WP_Http->request()\n#4 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd.eigenwijze.nl/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/REST/Status.php(82): WP_Http->get()\n#5 /var/www/vhosts/eigenwijze.nl/dsd...', referer: hidden link
Did the site crash at a random time or was there a specific action that showcased the fatal error? For example, viewing a translation or trying to add a translation.
When I enabled String Translation I did not get a fatal error. This will help in reproducing this behavior.
I am migrating a copy of the site to our cloudways servers where we can further test without having to risk your site going down. will update you here as soon as there are updates
