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The full stack trace from the log (with IP and web address aliased to anonymous):

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'LogicException' with message 'Illegal value passed (no array or string given)' in /www/website.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/wp-mail-smtp.php:58, referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] Stack trace:, referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] #0 /www/website.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/wp-mail-smtp.php(58): spl_autoload_register(NULL), referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] #1 /www/website.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/wp_mail_smtp.php(52): require_once('/www/website....'), referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] #2 /www/website.com/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(1897): include('/www/website....'), referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] #3 /www/website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php(172): plugin_sandbox_scrape('wp-mail-smtp/wp...'), referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] #4 {main}, referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26
[Tue Feb 13 17:28:08 2018] [error] [client 0.0.0.0]   thrown in /www/website.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/wp-mail-smtp.php on line 58, referer: https://www.website.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=wp-mail-smtp%2Fwp_mail_smtp.php&_error_nonce=6d70143a26

Excellent job on the plugin!

When setting my .htaccess to remove the trailing slash, I received the same error. This is my .htaccess setup:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I’m not using any custom permalinks. I guess it was maybe some kind of DNS refresh issue. It works for me, as well. I wanted to document this, in case someone else comes across a similar issue.

Thanks for your help, Voodoo.

Thanks for replying. I don’t see that there is a .htaccess file for my WP directory.

Thanks t31os!

Now that we’re in version 2.8, the code has been rearranged. So, now instead of looking for widgets.php, you need to look for default_widgets.php in the wp-includes directory, in order to modify the Meta widget.

@karizma23, thanks for posting, so that I could fix the same issue.

@srdegnan

This worked well, except for one major issue. First, I had a problem with recompressing the SQL dump. I was able to do it after I edited the URLs, but when I tried to import the zipped SQL into the new host’s phpMyAdmin, MySQL threw an error that said that the file size did not match the value that was in the file header. So, the only way to work around that was to simply upload the raw, uncompressed SQL file that I had edited on my local machine. Then, it worked fine.

Thanks for the instructions. For me it really only took about an hour. Now that I’ve worked out my specific issues, these instructions will make transferring my wife’s blog much easier.