Title: Fatal error? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Fatal error? * Resolved [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/) * Hi, * Can anybody help me? on my dashboard in wordpress I often get a fatal error message like: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted ( tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/hairloom/public_html/wp-includes/class- simplepie.php on line 4184” * or * “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1311905 bytes) in /home/hairloom/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1358” * I don’t know what this means, can somebody help me out? * I can’t update wordpress to 3.0 because of this and I can’t add some plugins either. * Thanks. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547272) * You need to increase the amount of memory available to WordPress. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/) [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842) * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547528) * Hi, * The bump won’t work for me. Any idea where I can access my PHP.ini file so I can change it from there? Or my .htaccess file? * Thanks for your help. * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547529) * I found my .htaccess file. * where would I add “php_value memory_limit 32M” * At the moment this is what it looks like: * # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond%{ REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index. php [L] * # END WordPress * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547530) * Put it at the very top, above `# BEGIN WordPress` . * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547531) * Thanks but I get an internal server error when I do this. * I will try to add “define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’32M’);” to my wp-config.php * Does anyone have any idea where to add this in there? * Thanks! * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547532) * Add it immediately below the `define('DB_COLLATE', '');` line. * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547533) * Thanks for your quick response. * Unfortunately this hasn’t worked. * What should I do now? Nothing has worked for me. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547534) * Contact your hosting provider and ask them to bump PHP’s memory allocation for you. * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547566) * Hi again, I have contacted my host provider. They have advised me to do the following: * “Please create php.ini file and then put memory_limit = whatever memory you want to set. Once it’s done upload it to the directory where you are running that php script.” * I don’t know how or what to do with thi. I am not sure how to create the php. ini file or where I should put it. * Can you help me out again? Pleeeaaasssseee? * Thread Starter [chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * (@chrisebbeck) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547591) * Ok I fixed this and it was very simple. * I tried all of the following and none worked: 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. * I have no access to my php.ini file. So I created my own php.ini file with the following in it and added to my wp-admin folder. * memory_limit = 128M * and it is all fixed! So simple, I have been trying to work this out all week. * [downsouth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/downsouth/) * (@downsouth) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-178/#post-1547669) * [@chrisebbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisebbeck/) * I too have been searching for days for the answer and tried all the same things with no luck at all. Like you, putting the php.ini file in wp-admin with this was the key: * memory_limit = 128M * I’m very appreciative that you posted. 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