Failed to locate civicrm.settings.php

Question

running CiviCRM WordPress 4.7.7

Any ideas what normalize your directory structure means?

Given it knows where the database is and both the website and the backend are working I am unsure where this is coming from. It only appears in the error_log.

[error] [client 66.249.83.121] PHP Fatal error:
Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Failed to locate civicrm.settings.php. Please boot with settingsFile, search, or CIVICRM_SETTINGS; or normalize your directory structure.' in /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php:125

Stack trace:

1. /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php(413): Civi\Cv\Bootstrap->boot()
2. /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/extern/open.php(2): require_once('/var/www/vhosts...')
3. {main}\n thrown in /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/civicrm.config.php on line 125

Update 1: civicrm_config.php - getCivicrmSettingsPhp Added error_log to display the options parameter and got the following:

[dynamicSettingsFile] => /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/settings_location.php\n
[env] => CIVICRM_SETTINGS\n
[prefetch] => 1\n
[settingsFile] => \n
[search] => 1\n
[cmsType] => \n
[httpHost] => casem-acmse.org\n)\n

Shouldn't the file referred to in dynamicSettingsFile be civicrm_settings.php?

Answer 1

This is related to Word Press Install Missing civicrm.settings.php; dashboard unavailable; no menus

I suspect that the culprit is the userFrameworkResourceURL I would tray the overrides mentioned in the above thread

Answer 2

I was having the same error message. Using Codedogs' change didn't work for me, not sure why. In my case, I simply hardcoded the 'settingsFile' as follows:

'settingsFile' => /home/user/domains/domain.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/civicrm/civicrm.settings.php',

Hope this helps someone!

Answer 3

The following edit corrects the problem: /../wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm_config.php

 public static function singleton() {
    if (self::$singleton === NULL) {
      self::$singleton = new Bootstrap(array(
        'dynamicSettingsFile' => dirname(__DIR__) . '/settings_location.php',
        'env' => 'CIVICRM_SETTINGS',
        'prefetch' => TRUE,
        'settingsFile' => dirname(__DIR__) . '/civicrm.settings.php', <=== CHANGE THIS LINE
        'search' => TRUE,
        'cmsType' => NULL,
        'httpHost' => array_key_exists('HTTP_HOST', $_SERVER) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] : '',
      ));
    }
    return self::$singleton;
  }