We upgraded one of our servers and at first did not notice this error. Soon logs began to fill with this error:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php:4501 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php(4056): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->get_prev_next_links(Object(WP_Post)) #1 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->wp_head('') #2 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #3 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #4 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/general-template.php(2668): do_action('wp_head') #5 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/header.php(21): wp_head() #6 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/template.php(704): require_once('/var/www/h...') #7 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/template.php(653): load_template('/var/www/h...', true) #8 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-incl in /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php on line 4501
Apparently, we missed to install all PHP extensions as before and one of our WordPress plugins (All in One SEO Pack) began to throw this nasty error and blank pages, where the error is supposed to be shown!
The fix is easy enough just install PHP-XML
CentOS 7
- default PHP:
yum -y install php-xml
- Using ius-release repo:
yum -y install php72u-xml
Ubuntu 16/17/18
sudo apt install -y php-xml php-dom
Gentoo
Just add to your current USE the following “xml” in your /etc/portage/make.conf and emerge (be sure “xml” is in USE emerge output, not “-xml”!):
srv1 ~ # emerge -va --nodeps php These are the packages that would be merged, in order: [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-7.2.10:7.2::gentoo USE="acl apache2 bcmath berkdb bzip2 calendar cgi cli ctype curl exif fileinfo filter fpm ftp gd gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json mhash mysql mysqli nls opcache pcntl pdo phar posix readline session sharedmem simplexml snmp soap sockets sqlite ssl tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter zip zlib -argon2 -cdb -cjk -coverage -debug -embed -enchant -firebird -flatfile -gmp -imap -inifile -intl -iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -libressl -lmdb -mssql -oci8-instant-client -odbc -phpdbg -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -session-mm -sodium -spell -systemd -sysvipc -test -threads -tidy -tokyocabinet -wddx -webp -xpm -xslt -zip-encryption" 0 KiB
Bonus
Here is how our WordPress page looks like with the error:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<link rel="pingback" href="https://ahelpme.com/xmlrpc.php">
<script>(function(html){html.className = html.className.replace(/\bno-js\b/,'js')})(document.documentElement);</script>
<title>How to compile xmr-stak (2.4.5) under CentOS 7 for CPU mining cryptocurrencies | Any IT here? Help Me! - Part 2</title>
<!-- All in One SEO Pack 2.12 by Michael Torbert of Semper Fi Web Design[387,517] -->
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Uncaught Error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php:4501
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php(4056): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->get_prev_next_links(Object(WP_Post))
#1 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->wp_head('')
#2 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#3 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#4 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/general-template.php(2668): do_action('wp_head')
#5 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/header.php(21): wp_head()
#6 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/template.php(704): require_once('/var/www/h...')
#7 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-includes/template.php(653): load_template('/var/www/h...', true)
#8 /var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-incl in <b>/var/www/htdocs/site1/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php</b> on line <b>4501</b><br />
And here is what you can expect in your web server logs (nginx + php-fpm setup)
2019/02/23 03:36:14 [error] 27441#27441: *56837 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php:4501
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/aioseop_class.php(4056): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->get_prev_next_links(Object(WP_Post))
#1 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): All_in_One_SEO_Pack->wp_head('')
#2 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#3 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#4 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/general-template.php(2668): do_action('wp_head')
#5 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/header.php(21): wp_head()
#6 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/template.php(704): require_once('/var/www/h...')
#7 /var/www/htdocs/site1/root/wp-includes/template.php(653): load_template('/var/www/h...', true)
#8 /" while reading response header from upstream, client: 66.249.79.133, server: ahelpme.com, request: "GET /linux/fedora/review-of-freshly-installed-fedora-29-kde-plasma-desktop-kde-gui/2/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://192.168.0.12:9000", host: "ahelpme.com"
And keep in mind if your HTTP 405 codes get in your access logs:
10.10.10.2 - - [22/Feb/2019:05:20:34 +0000] "GET /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 405 53 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1" "-" 10.10.10.2 - - [22/Feb/2019:05:20:38 +0000] "GET /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 405 53 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1" "-"