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This section provides solutions to common WP-CLI troubleshooting scenarios.

Terminus WP-CLI Silent Failure

The silent failure shown below occurs when executing terminus remote:wp commands on environments that use redirect logic without checking to confirm that WordPress is running via the command line:

[notice] Command: $site.$env -- 'wp <command>' [Exit: 0]

Redirects cancel the PHP process before WP-CLI is executed.

Add php_sapi_name() != "cli" as a conditional statement to all redirect logic within wp-config.php to resolve this error:

wp-config.php
// Require HTTPS, www.
if (isset($_ENV['PANTHEON_ENVIRONMENT']) &&
  ($_ENV['PANTHEON_ENVIRONMENT'] === 'live') &&
  // Check if Drupal or WordPress is running via command line
  (php_sapi_name() != "cli")) {
  if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != 'www.yoursite.com' ||
      !isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT_HTTPS']) ||
      $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT_HTTPS'] != 'ON' ) {
    header('HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently');
    header('Location: https://www.yoursite.com'. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    exit();
  }
}

Request to a Remote API Does Not Return Expected Response

The PHP 5.5 default is & and the PHP 5.3 default is &amp;.

If the API expects & as an argument separator but receives &amp; (for example, when using http_build_query), you can override the default arg_separator.output value by adding the following line to wp-config.php:

wp-config.php
ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');

Actions and Filters in wp-config.php

Actions or filters that require CLI tools like WP-CLI might fail from wp-config.php, because the functions required are not yet accessible. Put these directives in an MU Plugin to resolve this issue.

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