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1. makisupa
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I receive the following error when trying to get to my admin's plugins area (http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php):

   Error 500 - Internal server error
   An internal server error has occured!
   Please try again later.

   I added the plugin folder to the plugin directory and activate it . First it returned an error saying it couldn't be installed and then when I tried to remove it from the server and install it again I started getting the error above. Now I can't access the admin plugin area at all. Whoops! I'm running WP. 2.6.2. Any ideas what I might do to fix this?

2. Brian Hatano
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I had a similar problem.

   In the /wp-admin/ directory, I added a notepad file titled "php.ini" with only the text "memory=20MB" (no quotes)

   This has something to do with host servers generally limiting the php access to 8MB, which is not enough when installing many plugins at once.

   Hope this fixes your problem!

   Brian

   P.S. For your reference, I have a hosting account with 1and1.

3. MrXStitch
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks for this tip Brian. It is most helpful!

4. Brian Hatano
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Sure thing!

5. briandavis1988
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello Brian,

   All I can say is thank God for people like you.

   Do you know how many frustrated hours of installing and deactivating plug-ins I had because of this problem... too many to count!!!

   Your little 'tip' has prevented me from going 'postal' on my blog/wordpress/computer.

   Please, please keep up the good work and keep sharing these little tips.

   (p.s. I am on 1and1 as well)

   (another) Brian

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