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Memory limit issues when attempting to run Wordpress site locally

I'm working on a wordpress website and I'm attempting to set up a local test-environment for development purposes. I'm running the MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) stack.

I'm running into the following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /Users/casey/Documents/workspaces/yofreesamples.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1174

I've attempted to increase the memory limit by modifying line 28 in wp-config.php:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '2024MB');

and by including the following value in index.php

ini_set('memory_limit','64M');

without any luck for any memory values I've tried. I'm relatively new to wordpress, anyone have any idea what's going on?

Solution

  • Perhaps the MAMP configuration doesn't allow you to override the memory limit programmatically. Set it in php.ini as described here.