permalinks issue Warning: preg_match()

  • Mihai Joldis

    (@misulicus)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hey guys.
    Whenever i try to use any other permalink form besides the default one i get losts of errors like this:

    Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (? or (?- at offset 3 in /home/littleco/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 204

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unrecognized character after (? or (?- at offset 3 in /home/littleco/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 205

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /home/littleco/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 204

    any idea whats causing it ?

    PHP info page here: http://www.littlebuildingco.com/info.php

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  • jnz31

    (@jnz31)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    hi
    could you plz explain how you solved this?
    i do have the same problem and it only occurs, if i enable wp-ecommerce. drives me nuts. php and pcre are pretty much up to date (php: 5.4.9, pcre: 8.31 2012-07-06). saw that you mentioned pcre in the wpsc forum.
    thanks!

    Thread Starter Mihai Joldis

    (@misulicus)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    At the moment the only option was to hide the PHP warning messages in htaccess.

    But this is not a WPEC issue its something related to each hosting account

    Tdude

    (@tdude)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi!

    Having the same issue and after some googling, there’s always a fix. The error seems to come from a regexp library on Apache server and versions 5.2x of PHP. It seems WPSC (and possibly other plugins) may use a more modern regular expressions library/search than is allowed.

    It sucks to have hundreds of google links point at your friendly urls, but you get dead pages… so I found this thread with a very temporary fix: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-wordpress-to-36-next-gen-gallery-no-longer-workds

    In short, you could open your wp-includes/class-wp.php and on line 204 and 205 insert a “@” to turn off the regex error messages.
    Original code:

    if ( preg_match("#^$match#", $request_match, $matches) ||
preg_match("#^$match#", urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

    New code:

    if ( @preg_match("#^$match#", $request_match, $matches) ||
@preg_match("#^$match#", urldecode($request_match), $matches) ) {

    This fix won’t brake things that work, but you probably shouldn’t develop a plugin using it.

    To really solve the problem, you should upgrade PHP to the latest version, but I know, your host sucks and won’t answer your requests, so don’t be a victim, change host!

    All the best,
    T

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