Title: ABSPATH wp-settings.php errors
Last modified: March 11, 2021

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# ABSPATH wp-settings.php errors

 *  [cyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyunicorn/)
 * (@cyunicorn)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-wp-settings-php-errors/)
 * I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past few days. My hosting company(
   Ionos) blamed it on my PCI Scanner and told me I need to “contact WordPress and
   let them turn off the debug on their end”. This is happening on every single 
   website I have with Ionos (I only scanned one out of 8) and failed the PCI scan
   due to wp-settings issues. I also set up a fresh site today to test this, with
   no plugins and just the default theme installed and still get the error. It happens
   when going to [http://www.example.com/wp-settings.php](http://www.example.com/wp-settings.php)
   in any browser replacing example.com with any of my domain names. Some sites 
   are on the current version of WordPress and others are on the previous version.
 * For all eight sites, it displays:
 * **Warning**: Use of undefined constant ABSPATH – assumed ‘ABSPATH’ (this will
   throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /shows-full-server-file-path-here/
   wp-settings.php on line 33
 * **Warning**: require(ABSPATHwp-includes/version.php): failed to open stream: 
   No such file or directory in /shows-full-server-file-path-here/wp-settings.php
   on line 33
 * **Fatal error**: require(): Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-includes/version.
   php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php7.4′) in /shows-full-server-file-path-here/
   wp-settings.php on line 33
 * This is the last section of wp-config.php for all sites:
 * /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */
 * /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
    if ( ! defined( ‘ABSPATH’ )){
   define( ‘ABSPATH’, dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/’ ); }
 * /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
    require_once ABSPATH . ‘wp-
   settings.php’;
 * Line 33 of wp-settings.php shows:
    require ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/version.php’;
 * I’ve also tried various ways of turning off debugging with no success. I’m not
   very familiar with the code, so I’m not sure where else to look.

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 *  Thread Starter [cyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyunicorn/)
 * (@cyunicorn)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-wp-settings-php-errors/#post-14164482)
 * This is what shows in wp-includes/version.php
 * <?php
    /** * WordPress Version * * Contains version information for the current
   WordPress release. * * [@package](https://wordpress.org/support/users/package/)
   WordPress * [@since](https://wordpress.org/support/users/since/) 1.1.0 */
 * /**
    * The WordPress version string. * * [@global](https://wordpress.org/support/users/global/)
   string $wp_version */ $wp_version = ‘5.7’;
 * /**
    * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the
   WordPress DB schema. * * [@global](https://wordpress.org/support/users/global/)
   int $wp_db_version */ $wp_db_version = 49752;
 * /**
    * Holds the TinyMCE version. * * [@global](https://wordpress.org/support/users/global/)
   string $tinymce_version */ $tinymce_version = ‘49110-20201110’;
 * /**
    * Holds the required PHP version. * * [@global](https://wordpress.org/support/users/global/)
   string $required_php_version */ $required_php_version = ‘5.6.20’;
 * /**
    * Holds the required MySQL version. * * [@global](https://wordpress.org/support/users/global/)
   string $required_mysql_version */ $required_mysql_version = ‘5.0’;
 *  Thread Starter [cyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyunicorn/)
 * (@cyunicorn)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-wp-settings-php-errors/#post-14168580)
 * After looking at the folders more, I realized that all of the files being referenced
   in the errors are located in the htdocs folder in the opcache. Is there a way
   to fix that? The .php files there are .php.bin files.
 * All errors are referencing htdocs/appxxxxxxxx/wp-settings.php

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## Tags

 * [ABSPATH](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/abspath/)
 * [wp-settings.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-settings-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [cyunicorn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyunicorn/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-wp-settings-php-errors/#post-14168580)
 * Status: not resolved

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