<b>Background of the issue: </b>
I am trying access this website. You need to enter flywheel / bogus-python to view the staging site when prompted for a username and password.
The website works fine running WPML 4.6.11. When I update to a newer version (I have tried every version after 4.6.11), I get a critical error on my staging website. I do not get the error on my Local copy. I have not updated the live website from 4.6.11 due to this issue. The website is running on PHP 8.2 and all other plugins are up to date. Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link. I expected to see the regular website working as it looks on the live version hidden link but instead I see this error message.
<b>Symptoms: </b>
I got this error message: Warning: require(/www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/../yoast/whip/src/Facades/wordpress.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 78 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/../yoast/whip/src/Facades/wordpress.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php:78 Stack trace: #0 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php(61): composerRequireb8fc3c022b06150263b6e79f7b5bab10('81db02b30f563b9...', '/www/wp-content...') #1 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/autoload.php(7): ComposerAutoloaderInitb8fc3c022b06150263b6e79f7b5bab10::getLoader() #2 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/sitepress.php(55): require_once('/www/wp-content...') #3 /wordpress/wp-settings.php(529): include_once('/www/wp-content...') #4 /www/wp-config.php(109): require_once('/wordpress/wp-s...') #5 /wordpress/wp-config.php(5): require('/www/wp-config....') #6 /wordpress/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/wordpress/wp-c...') #7 /wordpress/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once('/wordpress/wp-l...') #8 /www/index.php(17): require('/wordpress/wp-b...') #9 {main} thrown in /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php on line 78.
I also received an email from WordPress about a fatal error with the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin with the following info:
WordPress version 6.7.1
Active theme: USW (version 1.0.0)
Current plugin: WPML Multilingual CMS (version 4.6.15)
PHP version 8.2.27
Error Details
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An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 78 of the file /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/../yoast/whip/src/Facades/wordpress.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php:78
Stack trace:
#0 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/composer/autoload_real.php(61): composerRequireb8fc3c022b06150263b6e79f7b5bab10('81db02b30f563b9...', '/www/wp-content...')
#1 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/vendor/autoload.php(7): ComposerAutoloaderInitb8fc3c022b06150263b6e79f7b5bab10::getLoader()
#2 /www/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/sitepress.php(55): require_once('/www/wp-content...')
#3 /wordpress/wp-settings.php(529): include_once('/www/wp-content...')
#4 /www/wp-config.php(109): require_once('/wordpress/wp-s...')
#5 /wordpress/wp-config.php(5): require('/www/wp-config....')
#6 /wordpress/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/wordpress/wp-c...')
#7 /wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php(34): require_once('/wordpress/wp-l...')
#8 /wordpress/wp-admin/index.php(10): require_once('/wordpress/wp-a...')
#9 {main}
thrown
<b>Questions: </b>
Can you please review the error and advise on how to fix this?
Thanks for that info. I tested the fix and it worked on our staging website.
It is not ideal to have to delete WPML and re-install on the live website. I'll have to put up a maintenance page to do that.
I use Git to manage the website's code including the plugins. If I install WPML manually on the live site, do you know what will happen with future Git deploys? Will the issue come back if I deploy the latest WPML plugin update via Git?
I don't want the site to go down every time I push plugin updates.
I’m glad to hear that it works. I can't say for certain, but as the errata explains, there is an error occurring in case-sensitive server environments. This issue has been escalated to our development team, so it should be addressed in a future release. I assume that you shouldn't encounter issues regarding this when using Git.
