Title: post.php & wp-comments-post.php save/open problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# post.php & wp-comments-post.php save/open problem

 *  [neuraxon77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neuraxon77/)
 * (@neuraxon77)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postphp-038-wp-comments-postphp-saveopen-problem/)
 * Anytime I try and post, firefox asks me to save or open post.php. The same thing
   happens when users try and comment. They’re asked to save wp-comments-post.php
   in ff or can’t get the page in IE.
 * I suspect this is a hosting problem with php? Everything seemed to work perfectly
   prior to a possible server restart/crash whereby my database became corrupted.
   I restored it from a backup to allow any access to my site.
 * I’ve tried upgrading from 1.5.3 to 2.0.3 and the same problems exist. I’ve tried
   removing and deactivating all plugins and removing pingomatic from ping list.
 * I just tried installing a clean Wp 2.0.3 on my host and it all went smoothly 
   until I tried to access my dashboard. Then I got a blank plage. I checked with
   my other blog and the same thing happens. Same posting and comment problem too.
 * Oooh, I just noticed my host is now running PHP 4.4.2! Previously it was 4.3.9
   I think.
 * Anyone know what the problem might be so I can get my host to fix it?

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 *  [andrewblake1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewblake1/)
 * (@andrewblake1)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postphp-038-wp-comments-postphp-saveopen-problem/#post-406533)
 * Not sure if I may be suffering the same problem. Have only just installed wordpress
   for the first time, using default everthing. Don’t have enough Knowledge yet 
   to change anything anyway. Get the blank comments-post.php syndrome. Everything
   else seems fine. Seems my host is running PHP 4.4.2 as well. Is this a pattern?
   I would say there is definetly a bug of some sort as all of my installation is
   default.
 *  [trombonekenny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trombonekenny/)
 * (@trombonekenny)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postphp-038-wp-comments-postphp-saveopen-problem/#post-406537)
 * I had this problem, and checking the error logs noticed PHP was running out of
   memory and was killing the process. The log message was “PHP Fatal error: Allowed
   memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted”
 * I guess when the process died, it was before it sent all of the data and the 
   browser didn’t know what to do with the file. If you search the forum for those
   error messages, you’ll get some suggestions on how to raise the memory PHP allocates
   per process, or the suggestion to prune back some plugins.
 *  [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postphp-038-wp-comments-postphp-saveopen-problem/#post-406538)
 * What error logs do I need to check for this? It’s happening across several blogs
   on the server.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postphp-038-wp-comments-postphp-saveopen-problem/#post-406538)
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