Title: Error Message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error Message

 *  [driftingfocus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftingfocus/)
 * (@driftingfocus)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-36/)
 * I was trying to update a plugin today, and got this message:
 * > Downloading update from [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/vipers-video-quicktags.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/vipers-video-quicktags.zip)
   > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   > 1462259 bytes) in /home7/driftin6/public_html/blogs/wp-includes/http.php on
   > line 1033
 * Any idea what’s wrong or how to fix it?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-36/#post-1113129)
 * 1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
    If your
   line shows 32M try 64M: memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script
   may consume (64MB)
 * 2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
   `
   php_value memory_limit 64M`
 * 3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
    Increasing memory allocated
   to PHP `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');`
 * 4. Talk to your host.
 *  Thread Starter [driftingfocus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driftingfocus/)
 * (@driftingfocus)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-36/#post-1113268)
 * I changed my php.ini file once, but I can’t remember where that control is. Any
   guesses?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-36/#post-1113268)
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