Title: php.ini question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# php.ini question

 *  Resolved [rt2null](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rt2null/)
 * (@rt2null)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/)
 * I am on a shared server and need to adjust my php memory limit for a few WP Plugins.
   Adding a php.ini in the includes directory or in the specific plugin directory
   itself does not change the memory limit.
 * It’s a specific to php and memory because the script is reporting back: (Error:
   Exceed Memory limit)
 * Suggestions?

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585392)
 * Add this to your .htaccess file in the root of your wordpress installation.
    `
   php_value memory_limit 16M`
 *  Thread Starter [rt2null](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rt2null/)
 * (@rt2null)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585443)
 * I have tried that a few times – .htaccess in the root of wordpress generates 
   a 500 Internal Server Error. I just copied and pasted you entry above.
 * Error Log:
    .htaccess: Invalid command ‘php_value’, perhaps mis-spelled or defined
   by a module not included in the server configuration
 * Should this work? I have noticed a bunch of entried suggesting this fix….
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585487)
 * It depends on how your server is set up. You really need to find the actual php.
   ini file and change the value there. If your on your own linux box just type 
   whereis php.ini in the terminal otherwise you’ll have to get your host to increase
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [rt2null](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rt2null/)
 * (@rt2null)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585555)
 * Thanks for the response. This is a hosted site, but my provider suggests me to
   adjust it in the php.ini file vs them doing it.
 * Where should they go for WP? I have already added it to the WP root, wp-includes
   and the specific script directory. It doesn’t appear to be working.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585562)
 * _It doesn’t appear to be working._
 * What are you basing that on? The error? That doesnt mean the memory increase 
   isn’t taking effect.
 * Do this,
 * 1. You have a php.ini in your root directory — leave that one alone, and delete
   the others, you need ONLY one.
 * 2. Create another file, put this in it:
 * `<?php phpinfo(); ?>`
 * upload that to your website, name it whatever you want, just make sure that the
   file extension ends with `.php`
 * Come back here after youve uploaded that file, and post a link to it, so that
   we can look at it.
 *  Thread Starter [rt2null](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rt2null/)
 * (@rt2null)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585626)
 * Thanks – I found it. Because this was php4 and needed to add php.ini into the
   wp-admin dir as the script was calling for a file in it.
 * Thanks everyone…
 *  [RobertBruce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertbruce/)
 * (@robertbruce)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585738)
 * I have tried all ther above plus different versions like .htaccess containing
   increase to memory while creating a brand new php.ini file with your one-liner
   code in it and placing it in WP-admin and then to public_html etc etc etc
 * Nothing corrects the error. I also renamed the plugins directory to see if this
   was the root cause of the memory overload, but nothing was corrected.
 * So I am still denied access to my site. Even trying mydomin.com/wp-admin/index.
   php does not work. I really am locked out.
 * Here is the error message:
    ======================= The server encountered an
   internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please
   contact the server administrator, [webmaster@iscatterlings.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/webmaster@iscatterlings.com?output_format=md)
   and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
   that may have caused the error.
 * More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
 * Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying 
   to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    ======================
 * Can you help?

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phpini-question/#post-585738)
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