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I'm receiving the below error when trying to access the Permalinks section on the WP admin. The page does not load and shows the error message instead. I cannot understand what this means or what has to be done. Any ideas are appreciated and thanks in advance.

 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function
 apache_get_modules() in
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:5283
 Stack trace: #0
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php(17):
 apache_mod_loaded('mod_rewrite', true) #1
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php(46):
 got_mod_rewrite() #2
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/options-permalink.php(71):
 got_url_rewrite() #3 {main} thrown in
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php
 on line 5283

Questions that are too localized (such as syntax errors, code with restricted access, hacked sites, hosting or support issues) are not in scope. See how do I ask a good question?

Closed 4 years ago.

I'm receiving the below error when trying to access the Permalinks section on the WP admin. The page does not load and shows the error message instead. I cannot understand what this means or what has to be done. Any ideas are appreciated and thanks in advance.

 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function
 apache_get_modules() in
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:5283
 Stack trace: #0
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php(17):
 apache_mod_loaded('mod_rewrite', true) #1
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/includes/misc.php(46):
 got_mod_rewrite() #2
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-admin/options-permalink.php(71):
 got_url_rewrite() #3 {main} thrown in
 /home/customer/www/mydomain/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php
 on line 5283

• permalinks
• wp-admin
• errors
• fatal-error

• I downgraded the php version to 7.2 which removed this error on my Siteground Hosting. – Aron Commented Sep 17, 2020 at 15:13
• You need to contact your hosting provider, this shouldn't happen unless you're using a super old version of WP ( the fix for this was made 13+ years ago ), either that or the apache module is not installed correctly on the server – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Sep 17, 2020 at 18:45
• It must be the apache module then as I'm running the latest Wordpress 5.5.1 on PHP 7.3.20. I now downgraded to 7.2.32 and the permalinks page is now showing again. – Ayrton Sims Commented Sep 17, 2020 at 20:39

1 Answer 1

The error is related with the Hosting Server PHP Version. So if you are on PHP 7.3.XX try downgrading to 7.2.xx or 7.1.xx and see if that helps!

P.S. I was facing the same issue and had to downgrade to PHP 7.1 to fix it!