Maintenance mode crashes sites on PHP 8
Turning on maintenance mode causes a fatal white screen error on sites running certain PHP 8 configurations.
1 public report · first reported 23 July 2024 · last reported 23 July 2024
What's going wrong
One site owner tested the plugin on a local setup before using it live and found that activating the maintenance mode produced a fatal error. The screen went white, which is the classic white screen of death, and the whole site became unreachable. The failure happened only with certain PHP 8 settings, so it could be missed in simple tests. Site owners who run older or customized servers are most at risk. A service that checks maintenance pages across PHP versions before deployment would protect them from this kind of crash.
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