If define NOREQUIREUSER is set, you must also set…

Error message

If define NOREQUIREUSER is set, you must also set NOREQUIREMENU or not set it.

What it means

A second consistency check in main.inc.php: pages that define NOREQUIREUSER (skip loading the user object) must also define NOREQUIREMENU, because menu rendering depends on the loaded user. Without it Dolibarr prints this message and exits before doing any more work.

Solutions

Add define('NOREQUIREMENU', 1) next to define('NOREQUIREUSER', 1)
Remove NOREQUIREUSER if your page needs the $user object anyway
Audit all custom entry points for define-set consistency after upgrading Dolibarr

Example fix

// before
define('NOREQUIREUSER', 1);
require '../main.inc.php';
// after
define('NOREQUIREUSER', 1);
define('NOREQUIREMENU', 1);
require '../main.inc.php';

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

if (defined('NOREQUIREUSER') && !defined('NOREQUIREMENU')) { define('NOREQUIREMENU', 1); }

Prevention

Whenever you skip user loading, always skip menu loading too
Copy complete define blocks from a recent Dolibarr skeleton page (e.g. public/demo pages)
Grep your custom pages for NOREQUIREUSER and verify NOREQUIREMENU is present

When it happens

Trigger: An entry script calls define('NOREQUIREUSER', 1) then includes main.inc.php without define('NOREQUIREMENU', 1).

Common situations: Public pages (login, install, cron) that skip authentication but copied only part of the required define set; upgrade of Dolibarr adding the new guard to legacy pages.

Understand the failure class

Background: Conflicting config options: "cannot be used together" — configuration validation errors across open-source libraries — this error's family across 162 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of Dolibarr/dolibarr@598aa4bdad (2026-09-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/76ce0b891fed10b4. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at htdocs/main.inc.php:66

if (!empty($_SERVER['MAIN_SHOW_TUNING_INFO'])) {
	[$usec, $sec] = explode(" ", microtime());
	$micro_start_time = ((float) $usec + (float) $sec);
	// Add Xdebug code coverage
	//define('XDEBUGCOVERAGE',1);
	if (defined('XDEBUGCOVERAGE')) {
		xdebug_start_code_coverage();
	}
}

require __DIR__.'/waf.inc.php';

// Check consistency of NOREQUIREXXX DEFINES
if ((defined('NOREQUIREDB') || defined('NOREQUIRETRAN')) && !defined('NOREQUIREMENU')) {
	print 'If define NOREQUIREDB or NOREQUIRETRAN are set, you must also set NOREQUIREMENU or not set them.';
	exit;
}
if (defined('NOREQUIREUSER') && !defined('NOREQUIREMENU')) {
	print 'If define NOREQUIREUSER is set, you must also set NOREQUIREMENU or not set it.';
	exit;
}

// This is to make Dolibarr working with Plesk
if (!empty($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) && substr($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], -6) !== 'htdocs') {
	set_include_path($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/htdocs');
}

// Include the conf.php and functions.lib.php and security.lib.php. This defined the constants like DOL_DOCUMENT_ROOT, DOL_DATA_ROOT, DOL_URL_ROOT...
require_once 'filefunc.inc.php';
/**
 * @var Conf $conf
 * @var DoliDB $db
 * @var HookManager $hookmanager
 * @var Translate $langs
 * @var User $user
 *
 * @var ?string $php_session_save_handler

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