Title: Website Broken!!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Website Broken!!

 *  Resolved [drspoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drspoon/)
 * (@drspoon)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/)
 * I have a website that I have WordPress installed on as well as a shopping cart
   theme (this is for a client) as of recently whenever I visit the site I get this
   message:
 * “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _http_build_query() (previously declared in /home/
   rbd_main_1014/thesweetstrap.com/wp-includes/compat.php:18) in /home/rbd_main_1014/
   thesweetstrap.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1411”
 * Can anyone tell me what’s going on? And what’s the best way to fix this? Any 
   help is greatly appreciated!!!
 * Website url: [http://www.thesweetstrap.com](http://www.thesweetstrap.com)
 * -DrS-

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 *  [tbennett04](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbennett04/)
 * (@tbennett04)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/#post-2184801)
 * What did you update to get this error? In the meantime create a page and put 
   it in the root directory called index.html and let it say the site is down for
   maintenance and will be back up soon. You DONT want your client or their clients
   seeing this!
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/#post-2184805)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If
   this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic
   plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins. If you can’t get into your admin
   dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, 
   an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
 * – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 *  Thread Starter [drspoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drspoon/)
 * (@drspoon)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/#post-2184858)
 * I fixed it. It seems WordPress hadn’t fully installed when it was updating. Just
   re-installed everything by hand via ftp and Viola it was fixed.
 * Thanks for the suggestions!!
 * -DrS-
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/#post-2184863)
 * Great!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-broken/#post-2184863)
 * Status: resolved

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