Title: Comments Template: failed to open stream
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments Template: failed to open stream

 *  [gnasser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnasser/)
 * (@gnasser)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-template-failed-to-open-stream/)
 * I get a weird error message on the internal pages of my blog. Has anyone seen
   this before?
 * Warning: comments_template(/homepages/39/d195882550/htdocs/wp-content/themes/
   default/comments.php) [function.comments-template]: failed to open stream: No
   such file or directory in /homepages/39/d195882550/htdocs/wp-includes/comment-
   template.php on line 671

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-template-failed-to-open-stream/#post-946907)
 * That means that you’re missing the `comments.php` template file in your default
   theme’s directory (usually `wp-content/themes/default/`).
 * Your active theme should have a `comments.php` file, but apparently yours is 
   missing.
 *  Thread Starter [gnasser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnasser/)
 * (@gnasser)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-template-failed-to-open-stream/#post-947013)
 * Thanks! I found it right away and put in the file. Totally fixed!

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 * [Comment Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [gnasser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnasser/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-template-failed-to-open-stream/#post-947013)
 * Status: not resolved

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