Title: Syntax error on activation
Last modified: October 19, 2020

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# Syntax error on activation

 *  [wvdploeg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wvdploeg/)
 * (@wvdploeg)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-on-activation-2/)
 * I get a syntax error on plugin activation :
 * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ”;’ (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in /[path
   to]/public_html/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php on line 17
 * I replaced the path with [path to]…

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 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-on-activation-2/#post-13555653)
 * That’s the configuration file created by the plugin. Maybe something odd happened
   when you turned it on. Can you delete it? You might have to delete it through
   a PHP script as the file is owned by the webserver. The command `unlink( '[path
   to]/public_html/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php' );` will delete the file.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-on-activation-2/#post-13555653)
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