Title: Error while trying to update WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Error while trying to update WordPress

 *  [abhishek_turbo911](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abhishek_turbo911/)
 * (@abhishek_turbo911)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-trying-to-update-wordpress/)
 * > When I am trying to update WordPress to the latest version, I get the following
   > error:
   > >  Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1.zip…](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1.zip…)
   > > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   > > 4247825 bytes) in /home/ngofuel/public_html/blog/wp-includes/class-http.php
   > > on line 1426
   > Thanks!

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 *  [Icethrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icethrill/)
 * (@icethrill)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-trying-to-update-wordpress/#post-2506726)
 * Another user posted this reply in a similiar thread: (4 possible solutions)
 * —
    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:
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’,’
   64M’);
 * 4. Talk to your host.
    —
 * Your problem seems to be that you need to increase the PHP memory limit. Though
   I might be wrong on this one.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Icethrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icethrill/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-while-trying-to-update-wordpress/#post-2506726)
 * Status: not resolved

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