Title: File.php Errors During Upgrade
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# File.php Errors During Upgrade

 *  [orangedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangedog/)
 * (@orangedog)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filephp-errors-during-upgrade/)
 * I am upgrading from 2.5 to 2.71 and receive this error. What’s puzzling to me
   is that there is no “file.php” at that location. Please help, thanks.
 * > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘ in /home/whf/public_html/news/wp-
   > admin/includes/file.php on line 97
   > Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/whf/public_html/news/
   > wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 106

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filephp-errors-during-upgrade/#post-1030883)
 * > What’s puzzling to me is that there is no “file.php” at that location.
 * There definitely should be
    all of the files must not have made the upload
 *  Thread Starter [orangedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangedog/)
 * (@orangedog)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filephp-errors-during-upgrade/#post-1030886)
 * My mistake, I see it there now. Line 97 looks like it might be related to .htaccess.
   The site is still viewable but I cannot login or upgrade. Any ideas are much 
   appreciated.

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## Tags

 * [file.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file-php/)
 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)
 * [upgrade-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [orangedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangedog/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filephp-errors-during-upgrade/#post-1030886)
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