Title: Compilation failed error after posting comment
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Compilation failed error after posting comment

 *  [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * (@silver)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/)
 * Hello. I am currently using WP ver 1.2 (mingus). Last night I reset the auto-
   increment on my categories. Everything went fine and about an hour later I posted
   a new entry on my site. When a friend tried to comment on a post he received 
   the following errors after clicking on the “submit” button (The error shows in
   the wp-comments-post.php file):
    Warning: Compilation failed: range out of order
   in character class at offset 4 in /home/typed/public_html/typo/wp-includes/functions.
   php on line 1348 The same error continues on for a few more lines. You may view
   a copy of the entire thing by going to this page: [http://www.typedby.com/error.php](http://www.typedby.com/error.php)
   I thought that it was because of an error I made when editing wp-comments.php
   or wp-comments-post.php. So I decided to re-install all the Word Press ver 1.2(
   mingus) files a few minutes ago. The problem still occurs even when I re-install
   all the WP files. The comments will post to the entry but the error page still
   shows up instead of redirecting the commenter back to the entry. Any help will
   be appreciated. Thank you!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70091)
 * I’ve not seen that error reported before.
    When you reinstalled, did you run ‘
   install.php’ or ‘upgrade.php’ ? And if you ran ‘install.php’ what happened about
   the database ?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70093)
 * I think it’s almost certainly the db.
    I don’t know how the db actually works
   with WP, but in a cross-referenced system, changing some info will almost certainly
   break it. Can you replace what you previously changed ?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70096)
 * There are people in #wordpress on irc.freenode.net that are better placed than
   me for this one – I wouldn’t want to screw things up any more for you !
 *  Thread Starter [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * (@silver)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70098)
 * Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to drop by later. I’m probably going to get 
   dizzy from trying to figure this out.
 *  Thread Starter [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * (@silver)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70119)
 * Thanks to podz and fargon! When I went onto the #wordpress irc, fargon mentioned
   that there was a bug in functions.php and he provided me with the fix. He also
   mentioned that it was a problem with spam words. When I uploaded the new functions.
   php, I still experienced the error. A minute ago I decided to remove my spam 
   words list from WP and see what happened. I made a test comment on my site and
   didn’t receive the error. It seems that something on the list of spam words I
   was using was causing the error.

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 * Last reply from: [Silver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silver/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compilation-failed-error-after-posting-comment/#post-70119)
 * Status: not resolved

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