T.J. Schmitz.com » wordpress PHP error .htaccess http://tjschmitz.com/blog It's all about me, right? Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:41:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Fixing the PHP Allowed Memory Size Exchausted Fatal Error in WordPress http://tjschmitz.com/blog/2007/12/12/fixing-the-php-allowed-memory-size-exchausted-fatal-error-in-wordpress/ http://tjschmitz.com/blog/2007/12/12/fixing-the-php-allowed-memory-size-exchausted-fatal-error-in-wordpress/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:20:58 +0000 T.J. http://cstarsys.com/blog/2007/12/12/fixing-the-php-allowed-memory-size-exchausted-fatal-error-in-wordpress/ When I logged on to post an update today, I was greeted with the error message:
Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 208834 bytes) in /public_html/*
(where * represented the path to any file in the wp-admin portion of one of my blogs). The content/end-user portion of the blogs were showing up just fine, I just couldn’t write any new content or make changes.

My initial research said that I would need to get my hosting company to increase the memory allocation of PHP on the server, or add the line ini_set("memory_limit","16M"); to any offending .php file. Since my hosting company is takes days to get to any problems, and I was having this issue with every .php file in the /wp-admin/ directory, these seemed like non-solutions. When I came across the idea of adding php_value memory_limit 32000000 to my .htaccess file, my hopes of a quick fix were restored. I added the line to the .htaccess file in the root of my website (/public_html) and the problem disappeared instantly, for all of my blogs hosted on this server. Hurray for quick, easy fixes!

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