fatal error message trying to activating the plugin after uploaded the files via FTP. I have WordPress at its latest version, as well as all the plugins and the Enfold theme. I have PHP 8.3, and I’ve already tried activating GF by first deactivating all the other plugins: the error persists. I don’t have any caching plugins.
Please contact your web host to ask them to retrieve the stack trace for the critical/fatal error from the site/server logs
[16-Feb-2026 14:39:56 UTC] PHP Warning: require_once(/home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/common.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/gravityforms.php on line 174
[16-Feb-2026 14:39:56 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required ‘/home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/common.php’ (include_path=‘.:/home2/lecaraba/php:/opt/cpanel/ea-php83/root/usr/share/pear’) in /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/gravityforms.php:174
Stack trace:
#0 /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(2400): include_once()
#1 /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php(673): plugin_sandbox_scrape(‘gravityforms/gr…’)
#2 /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-admin/plugins.php(60): activate_plugin(‘gravityforms/gr…’, ‘https://www.lec…’, false)
#3 {main}
thrown in /home2/lecaraba/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/gravityforms.php on line 174
The error indicates the common.php file is missing, suggesting when the plugin was installed via FTP, some of the files were not copied over.
You’ll need to reinstall the plugin.
re-uploaded many times. File common.php is present but when I activate the plugin it is immediately deleted !!!