I’m trying out WordPress 3 as a platform for our office Intranet/Extranet. Setting it up on a LAMP installation of the 64 bit version of Ubuntu Server (Lucid), I could login only once to the wp-admin page. Whenever I tried again, I got the following error message:

wordpress Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (In xyz file)

Initially I thought that our server being low on memory was at fault since there were other applications running using the same MYSQL server. I unsuccessfully restarted the machine twice after shutting down some services like Zope hoping to free some memory and solve the problem.

The solution (after a bit of trial and error) is to ftp to your webserver, change over to your WordPress installation directory and edit the wp-config.php file.

Add the following line (on a new line) after the other lines beginning with “define”

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Hope this helped

 

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