WP 2.2.3 – Cache.php line 48 error – URGENT HELP Pls

  • Everything had been working fine for over 6 months, then suddenly yesterday I started to get the following error all over the admin side of the blog

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72865 bytes) in /home/*username*/public_html/blog/wp-includes/cache.php on line 48

    On the dashboard page, all the content streamed from WP has disappeared, all my scheduled posts have disappeared too.

    If I click on manage – I cannot see the posts list – it is replaced with the error above, and when editing any unpublished page, everytime I click save or save & continue editing, that error appears as well and I have to hard edit the browser URL back to admin home and go back in through manage — pages — select page and edit.

    The cache.php is the standard file as supplied with the original download, and line 48 seems to refer to the strings for the $server, $host, $database, $user, $password, datas.

    The public side of the site is working, and I can write and publish new posts and pages, but the admin back end is a mess, and I’ve lost all the scheduled posts – days of work ??

    Can anyone suggest a fix on this?

    Thanks

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  • I searched the forum and found many posts on this problem, all boiling down to this answer.

    Now, I noticed you are still on version 2.3. You should definitely upgrade. But back everything up first! Here are directions on how to do back up.

    Thread Starter edditor

    (@edditor)

    Thanks Rosie …. but eek!

    Regarding the fix – my reply on the thread you pointed to says it all.

    Regarding the back up – it looks like a terrifying task, especially when it starts waffling about anti-spam etc swelling the database and needing to not be backed up.

    It’s 5am here and maybe I’m too tired – I’ll look again in the morning after some sleep

    Thanks again
    Ed

    Heh! My bad. I should’ve seen you’d already been to that particular post.

    Here is Codex article with a few more details. As it says, your host may not allow you to change the PHP memory size; that you have to ask them to do it. It should be no biggie to do.

    And regarding the backup, it’s not so difficult… even a goober like me can do it, and I mess everything up!

    Print out the instructions, and ignore the part about your spam plugin swelling tables–just select all the tables and mark the boxes as described.

    I can’t tell you how important backing up your database is. It has saved my prodigious derrière more times than I can count.

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