Title: compat.php error message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# compat.php error message

 *  [icundell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icundell/)
 * (@icundell)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatphp-error-message/)
 * Version 2.7 (not included in the drop down list!) Any idea what this error may
   indicate (it shows up in the php logs, but the blog works fine), since it is 
   making my host a bit twitchy?
 * `Jan 20 04:57:27 [apache2] PHP Fatal error: require() [<a href='function.require'
   >function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'ABSPATHwp-includes/compat.php'(
   include_path='.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php')`
 * I comes up frequently. The file is definitely present with permissions 644 and
   functionality seems un-impaired, but my host is concern it may indicate an attempted
   exploit.

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 *  [mlwjones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlwjones/)
 * (@mlwjones)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatphp-error-message/#post-965804)
 * Haven’t a clue why this happens or why this solution works, but I just deleted
   my entire wp-includes directory and re-uploaded it. Works fine now.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatphp-error-message/#post-965804)
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