Title: Fatal error – Site Broken
Last modified: May 17, 2017

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# Fatal error – Site Broken

 *  [ninetailfoxau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetailfoxau/)
 * (@ninetailfoxau)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-site-broken/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to work out how to fix the following error on my partner’s site ([http://johnadouglas.com.au](http://johnadouglas.com.au)).
   I am not sure if it manually updated to 4.7.5, but several other of our sites
   have, so I assume it did.
 * `Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class WP_HTTP_Fsockopen in /home/joh19819/public_html/
   wp-includes/class-wp-http-streams.php on line 428`
 * Reading the sticky post at the top of the page and some of the post in the forum,
   it seems like I should try manually copying the wp-admin and wp-includes to the
   server.
 * My question is twofold:
 * 1. I don’t have access to the backend (same error appears) and the manual update
   instructions say to turn off the plug in.
    2. Is there anything else I should
   do?
 * Thanks

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 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-site-broken/#post-9142514)
 * Yes, you can update those files by accessing your hosting space directly, either
   by using some FTP program or cPanel (or equivalent). Mind you, login credentials
   for those are different from your website backend login credentials.
 *  Thread Starter [ninetailfoxau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetailfoxau/)
 * (@ninetailfoxau)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-site-broken/#post-9144790)
 * Thanks. It worked.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 12 months ago by [ninetailfoxau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninetailfoxau/).
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-site-broken/#post-9144947)
 * Glad it worked. 🙂 Could you mark the thread as “resolved”?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-site-broken/#post-9144947)
 * Status: not resolved

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