Title: template.php fatal error with theme-compat/footer.php
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# template.php fatal error with theme-compat/footer.php

 *  [atomicjack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomicjack/)
 * (@atomicjack)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/templatephp-fatal-error-with-theme-compatfooterphp/)
 * Hi,
 * One of my WordPress sites will not load, and attempting to load it causes Apache
   to crash.
 * I’m getting the following error:
 * [Wed Mar 30 14:22:36.819635 2016] [:error] [pid 1520] [client 127.0.0.1:56768]
   PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/Users/me/Sites/helloworld/
   wp-includes/theme-compat/footer.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /Users/me/Sites/helloworld/
   wp-includes/template.php on line 562
 * The line 562 in template.php includes:
 *  if ( $require_once ) {
    require_once( $_template_file ); } else { require( $
   _template_file ); }

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/templatephp-fatal-error-with-theme-compatfooterphp/#post-7222557)
 * You seem to have at least one damaged core file. There may be more…
 * Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the root wp-config.php & .htaccess
   files and the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/templatephp-fatal-error-with-theme-compatfooterphp/#post-7222557)
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