Posted 1 year ago #
I am using Minimalism Theme 1.0.1 on one of my WordPress website and I have an extremely large (1.7gig) error_log file in directory:
.../wp-content/themes/minimalism/images/
...that is taking up most of my disk space!
Do you have any idea what is causing the error and how I can go about reducing it's size?
Is there any point in deleting the file?
Any help greatly appreciated!
Hi,
This is an odd phenomenon. To know exactly, you'd have to read the error file. And I know that's not easy, you'd have to FTP the file probably, and then open it in a text editor that can handle that size file.
Short of that, I have an idea for you. A site I've worked on had a similar problem, and eventually the file would get SO big that the site would stop coming up. So I read the huge error file, which pointed me in the right direction. WP was running out of memory. Here's a nice article about that if you'd like to try this approach:
http://www.nerdgrind.com/increase-wordpress-and-php-memory-limit/
For me, just using the first command fixed it. Beyond that, you may need some help from host tech support unless you're a server geek.
But ultimately, yes, you'll want to delete that monster error file, hopefully after finding out what the error is.
Good luck, Dave
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