Title: opening *.php error Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # opening *.php error * Resolved [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/) * My problem began as a error similar to that described in thread #66321: each time I publish from Write Post, Firefox 1.5 tries to open post.php, but _most times_ publishes the post. In IE 6, ‘Page cannot be displayed’ displays when I try to publish, but post is still published. Inconvenient, but I can live with it. * Now this happens when I try to log in, change themes, or try to change options, my browser tries to open the corresponding *.php. Now sometimes the post does not publish, the theme can’t be changed, and I’m not able to log in. * I did deactivate all my plugins; this had no effect on the problem. (It’s an intermittent problem, so its hard to be sure) * I have no idea where to start trouble-shooting this. Advice would be greatly appreciated. I am new to WordPress, so please explain gently if you can. * PHP 5.0.4 Wordpress 2.02 [http://shantarohse.com/](http://shantarohse.com/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366329) * I’d really appreciate a suggestion for this. At this point, even a shot in the dark is welcome. * [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/) * (@samboll) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366332) * OK – shot in the dark. Turn off wysiwyg editor and update permalinks. If that doesn’t work, upload a fresh wp-admin.php. * Thread Starter [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366333) * I’m afraid it didn’t work, but thanks for trying samboll. * Thread Starter [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366337) * Ok let’s try something different. Is anyone else having similar problems to mine? At least I won’t feel so all alone 🙁 Maybe I’m forgetting some important detail that would help these wonderful support gurus. * I did find these similar posts; but they are too old for me to feel confident about following their advice: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/24423?replies=8](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/24423?replies=8) [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/26867?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/26867?replies=4) [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/59786?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/59786?replies=3) * An error with post.php seems to be common. But my problem is 1) all *.php, and mostly with login.php and 2) intermitent: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/61241?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/61241?replies=2) [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58296?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/58296?replies=1) * Should I be asking this in a different support forum like PHP? * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366338) * Do you have control over your php configuration? If I were to make my own wild guess, I’d say you need to configure PHP max memory to be more than the default 8MB. * I had a similar situation that was resolved by increasing memory to 20MB. * Thread Starter [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366341) * Bingo. That fixed it. Thanks for sharing that priceless suggestion, HandySolo. * Thread Starter [shanta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanta/) * (@shanta) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366344) * HandySolo – as an aside, why did this work? What problem does it address? What would make demands on PHP memory be higher? * [prjg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iiiiiiiv/) * (@iiiiiiiv) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366345) * From the php.ini guide… * _memory\_limit integer_ * This sets the maximum amount of memory in bytes that a script is allowed to allocate. This helps prevent poorly written scripts for eating up all available memory on a server. In order to use this directive you must have enabled it at compile time. So, your configure line would have included: –enable-memory-limit. Note that you have to set it to -1 if you don’t want any limit for your memory. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘opening *.php error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [prjg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iiiiiiiv/) * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-php-error/#post-366345) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics