Out of Memory Error Uploading Large File

It appears you’re allocating only 32MB to PHP. Try increasing it to 64 or 128M.

See this for guidance:

https://docs.woothemes.com/document/increasing-the-wordpress-memory-limit/

I have done the first step in the past and I don’t believe I have a php.ini because I am not local hosted. I went to edit the .htaccess, but I was not sure where to put the line of code. I have not edited my .htaccess before, so it is the default.

Also, apologies for my late response. I must’ve missed the email notification.

Please contact tech support for your host if you’re unable to increase the memory allocated to PHP.

I should be able to, I’m just not sure where to put the line of code that the website you provided has. (php_value memory_limit 64M)

Currently it is:

# 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

Try adding this in your wp-config.php

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');

define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

For sure you have this set up in your default-constants.php as

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');
                        } else {
                                    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '40M');
                        }
            }

            if ( ! defined( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT' ) ) {
                        define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M' );

This causes you from using the allowable RAM. However, if you add that code mentioned above in the wp-config.php, that should work.

Add the lines to .htaccess *before* the #BEGIN WordPress line

Borge,

Do you mean make sure I have that set up in default-constants.php? In that file, I have

// set memory limits
if ( !defined(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) ) {
if ( is_multisite() ) {
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);
} else {
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’40M’);
}
}

if ( ! defined( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’ ) ) {
define( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’ );
}

If I need to change it to what you have, let me know. Thanks!

sterndata,

I tried adding the line of code before, as you said. The website then had an Internal Service Error.

If you host allow 512M RAM, change it into

if ( !defined(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’) ) {
if ( is_multisite() ) {
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’);
} else {
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘256M’);
}
}

if ( ! defined( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’ ) ) {
define( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘512M’ );
}

Let me know if this works..

Borge,

Thank you again for your response. I added

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');

define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');

into wp-config.php. And then added

if ( !defined('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT') ) {
if ( is_multisite() ) {
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');
} else {
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
}
}

if ( ! defined( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT' ) ) {
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M' );
}

to default-constants.php. However, it still throws the error of Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 39321600) (tried to allocate 276803 bytes) in /homepages/14/d117110337/htdocs/tknn/wp-includes/ID3/getid3.php on line 1664.

Please contact tech support for your host if you’re unable to increase the memory allocated to PHP.

As I’ve been trying to figure this out, I discovered some more information that may help. I moved my plugins into a new folder, just to see if there was a plugin error. As I moved them back in, I noticed I was able to now upload the file. However, I noticed that as I moved more back and *activated* more, I was no longer able to upload the file. Would this re-enforce the hypothesis that my PHP memory needs to be increased?

Would this re-enforce the hypothesis that my PHP memory needs to be increased?

definitely

Okay, thanks!