Hi!
I tried to open the page “/wp-admin/options-permalink.php” on my site, but it wouldn’t load because of a critical error. It turns out the problem is as follows (from debug.log) :
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function flock() in /www/.../html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php:182
Stack trace:
#0 /www/.../html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php(285): insert_with_markers()
#1 /www/.../html/wp-includes/class-wp-rewrite.php(1899): save_mod_rewrite_rules()
#2 /www/.../html/wp-includes/rewrite.php(282): WP_Rewrite->flush_rules()
#3 /www/.../html/wp-admin/options-permalink.php(212): flush_rewrite_rules()
#4 {main}
thrown in /www/.../html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 182
Once I comment out the two lines in misc.php that use the function flock(), the page (options-permalink.php) opens just fine. But I realize this might not be an optimal solution or might even raise other issues!
So my question is – how come a native PHP function flock() is undefined, and how can I fix this in a better way? On previous lines in misc.php other PHP functions are used, such as fopen(), and there’s no error. I have PHP 8.1 and the latest WP version (6.5.2).
I don’t know if this is related to updating to the new WP version or not, as I haven’t tried opening the page in question earlier. But today, while debugging, I disabled the Elementor plugin and tried to re-enable it – that wouldn’t happen because the plugin would cause an error, but once I commented out those lines in misc.php I could enable Elementor again. Such a problem hasn’t happened before with plugins, so I’m guessing this might have something to do with the update.
(Originally navigated to options-permalink.php to flush permalinks because the Site Health suggested that, saying “The authorization header is missing”, which I guess is a whole different issue I have no idea about 😀 The site was originally made by someone else and I have gradually learned WP stuff myself to do changes to it.)