Magento site error: simplexml_load_file(): Entity: line 46: parser error

[Dipak Bhoi]

Hello Guys,

One of our client copied a Magento site under his another addon domain, he mapped all data and database but the site was redirecting to the magento install page and throwing an error as below:

[05-Jan-2015 07:32:39 UTC] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file(): Entity: line 46: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: password line 45 and dbname in /home/username/public_html/domain.com/app/Mage.php on line 767
[05-Jan-2015 07:32:39 UTC] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():                     <dbname><![CDATA[database_name]]></dbname> in /home/sewingon/public_html/craftcouch.com/app/Mage.php on line 767
[05-Jan-2015 07:32:39 UTC] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():                                                                ^ in /home/username/public_html/domain.com/app/Mage.php on line 767
[05-Jan-2015 07:32:39 UTC] PHP Notice:  Trying to get property of non-object in /home/username/public_html/domain.com/app/Mage.php on line 769

To resolve this error you need to read this error very carefully because an answer is hidden in this error.

As per a first line of error open file  /home/username/public_html/domain.com/app/Mage.php and to to line 767, but here you will not see any tag mismatch. You can see a code a below:

$localConfig = simplexml_load_file($localConfigFile);

Now looks for a value $localConfigFile which mentioned above by 2-3 line of this line.

You can see a line as below:

$localConfigFile = $etcDir . DS . 'local.xml';

As per the error there is a Opening and ending tag mismatch in file local.xml on line 45.

Now open the local.xml file (magento configuration file) and go to line 45.

#vi /home/username/public_html/domain.com/app/etc/local.xml

You can see code as below:

<password><![CDATA[6GlJ0wnrzqdG]]></password>

Here check the opening and closing brackets [] should be same.

To resolve this error, I have corrected the opening an closing tag and website is working fine now. Hope this post will help you out.

Enjoy!!

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