Fatal error: Out of memory

meantime, managed to put a php.ini in the webroot directory where i alocated 256M. Tested with a phpinfo and indeed i get 256M.

Error is still the same… ??

WordPress should not be causing that much memory usage.

It could be a badly installed/configured PHP server.

i have the option in the admin/config panel of the host to change the php version, so i up-ed from 4.4.7 to 5.2.5
also i can have 5.2.3 but i get the message at install that it is not enough

So the host says it is a WordPress problem. I have indeed 256M thru php.ini alocated and the error persists.

Any HEEEELP please ???

Thank you,
B.

– System Recommendations for 4.0

In addition to PHP, also check:

?PHP version 5.2.4 or higher.
?MySQL version 5.0 or higher.
?The mod_rewrite Apache module.

– also, for testing purposes, try 325M

Well, just phoned with the hosting provider and they say it is a WordPress problem and they do not support my wordpress installation. I have to manage alone… and no nice tone was used.

So i would be at least happy to know if the problem can be solved on my side – and keep looking for a solution – or i deppend on the host.

Meanwile i tryed to install WP3.9 and the error message is simmilar:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 9699328) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /web/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 478

PHP 5.2.5
MySQL 5.0.37
Perl 5.8.5
i put in the webroot directoy a .htaccess with

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

and i don’t have access to server config anymore since the last phone talk so i can’t access php.ini anymore.
Since the host is not my choice it is hard to solve the problem soon unless there is a tehnical – script – code – voodoo solution.

ty so far,
B.

try deactivating ALL plugins and switching to the default Twenty Fourteen theme with all plugins off.

If that resolves the issue, then turn one-by-one on to find the problem.

Since you don’t have access to admin, use FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides

… hi Tara, the errors above are at WP installation.
If i’ll see the WP Dashboard on that server … huuaaa…

??

So i figured out what the problem might be while trying to copy a functional wp instalation with Duplicator (that needs php 5.2.17)
PHP version is 5.2.5 – this is a 2007 version, and phpinfo reveals that it is a 2008 server, so it’s all very old stuff.

The fact that the dude at “Freenet” today wasn’t nice and cooperative when i asked about the problems with the server completes the whole picture.
I will try to move the hosting if possible.

Thank you for the nice answers,
B.

You are welcome
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