Title: Yoast Fatal Error
Last modified: September 20, 2022

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# Yoast Fatal Error

 *  Resolved [bee15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bee15/)
 * (@bee15)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-fatal-error/)
 * Hello,
    I received an error record from WordPress.
 * Front end seems fine, but I would like this investigated please.
    below are the
   error details:
 *     ```
       WordPress version 6.0.2
       Active theme: Flatsome (version 3.13.1)
       Current plugin: Yoast SEO (version 19.6.1) PHP version 7.4.30
   
       Error Details
       =============
       An error of type E_COMPILE_ERROR was caused in line 50 of the file /srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php. Error message: require_once(): Failed opening required '/srv/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/wp-seo-main.php' (include_path='/:.')
       ```
   
 * Thanks,
    Emma
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fyoast-fatal-error%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/)
 * (@jeroenrotty)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-fatal-error/#post-16026489)
 * Hey [@bee15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bee15/),
 * Thank you for using Yoast SEO and for reaching out!
 * Thank you for including the error stack – looking at it, we see that it’s related
   to a missing file (or temporary missing file) located in our plugin: wp-content/
   plugins/wordpress-seo/wp-seo-main.php.
 * It could have been a temporary issue during an upgrade for example, where the
   file was not present and OPcache was still referring to it. If you check the 
   folder and the file is there, nothing is wrong. If it’s not there, I would consider
   re-uploading the latest Yoast SEO plugin, WordPress will show that the plugin
   is already present but you can click the Proceed button to overwrite with the
   newest installation file.
 *  Thread Starter [bee15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bee15/)
 * (@bee15)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-fatal-error/#post-16028666)
 * Hi Jeroen,
 * I will give it a go and check 🙂
    Thanks for the prompt response!
 * Cheers,
    Emma
 *  [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/)
 * (@jeroenrotty)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-fatal-error/#post-16029399)
 * No worries, happy to help. Do let us know how it goes Emma, thanks!
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-fatal-error/#post-16052433)
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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