.htaccess - increasing php value memory limit

Question

I transferred the web directory of a site to new hosting. after importing the directory and the DB, I got this error:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 79 bytes) in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysql.php on line 712

I found my .htaccess file that was empty and added the line php_value memory_limit 256m, and it didn't work, I changed it to 512m, which is the highest that they support and still doesn't work. Can someone help me please.....Never thought a site transfer would be this difficult.

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so I added the folloing to .htaccess php_value memory_limit 512M php_flag display_errors 1 php_value error_reporting 8191

RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /

and I get the following

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/jantispam/jantispam.php on line 90

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/jantispam/jantispam.php on line 68

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/jantispam/jantispam.php on line 261

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/jantispam/jantispam.php on line 274

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/jantispam/jantispam.php on line 39

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/slprettyphoto/slprettyphoto.php on line 30

Strict Standards: Only variables should be assigned by reference in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/plugins/system/ctkfbinit/ctkfbinit.php on line 94

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 79 bytes) in /mnt/stor12-wc1-ord1/895923/www.youth-panel.com/web/content/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysql.php on line 712

I will try turning off those plugins to see what happens

Answer 1

Your current configuration allocates 512 MB of RAM to your PHP scripts. I don't know about you, but my server has 12 GB of RAM available. This means that if only about 20 people tried to run that script of yours at the same time, my server would thrash and die.

Consider fixing the memory problem in the code, rather than blindly increasing memory limits. Personally, I would recommend setting the max memory size to something restrictively small, such as 16MB, to force yourself to write more efficient code - works for me!