Apache error: preg_match(): Compilation failed

How often does this warning appear?

Every couple of minutes. I’ve gone back only to yesterday through the log and there are hundreds of such warnings in that time span.

According to ChatGPT (if it is of any help):

Potential Solution:

• The problem might be caused by the contents of $value->content not being a properly formatted regex pattern. It’s possible that $value->content contains special regex characters that need to be escaped, or it forms an invalid regex pattern.
• To fix this, you can use preg_quote() to escape any special regex characters in $value->content. Here’s the modified line of code:

if(preg_match("/".preg_quote($value->content, '/')."/i", $request_url)){

• preg_quote() will escape any regex special characters in $value->content, making it safe to use in preg_match(). The second parameter '/‘ is to escape any slashes since your regex pattern is delimited by slashes.
  

can you take a screenshot of the exclude rules and share with me please?

Here.

can you remove the “regex” one please?

Done. I added the rule like this now. It should work the same, but without the error, right?

No need to add such a rule, as URLs containing a query string are excluded automatically.

There is a need, I am afraid. The cart rebuilding was not working without it and it took us ages to figure out the issue. Once I added the exclusion rule, the function worked.

do not worry about it. please remove the rule and tell me the url which you want to exclude it. I will check it that it is excluded or not.

I can’t exclude it, as we have already confirmed this with 100% certainty to be the issue. Without that specific rule, all abandoned cart urls were defaulting to the homepage. Unless you implemented some changes to the plugin since July 11, 2023 that would automatically exclude all URLs with string queries, there is no reason why it would now work.

Did you implement any such change?

But your regex rule didn’t used to work, so you had lots of warnings in the log file.

you can add the following rule.

Well, it worked, but with errors. The carts were getting recovered. I added an exclude condition now similar to your suggestion (no regex) and the cart recovery works.

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction with regards to the regex warning.

You’re welcome ?? If you vote, it would make me so happy.

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You bet I will! ??