Title: PHP Fatal Error
Last modified: August 22, 2018

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# PHP Fatal Error

 *  Resolved [insightdes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/insightdes/)
 * (@insightdes)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-146/)
 * Hi, my site front end produced a 500 internal server error today.
 * Debug.log has the following:
 * > [22-Aug-2018 03:43:12 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement
   > has to be the very first statement in the script in /home/user/example.com.
   > au/wp-content/plugins/backupwordpress/classes/class-path.php on line 3
 * Help appreciated.
 * Steve

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 *  Thread Starter [insightdes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/insightdes/)
 * (@insightdes)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-146/#post-10612544)
 * I found the issue – unfortunately this file had been hacked.

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