Help! 500 server error on everything…

  • I’ve got a blog that I can’t access right now. Everything I try to access gives me a 500 error.

    It started about 2 weeks ago when the flickr plugin we were using began to cause problems. This is the tantannoodles flickr plugin (support site here). The problem was that this plugin normally pulls the images from my flickr account into the Write Post page so I can embed them into a post.

    2 weeks ago this stopped working. When I went in to configure the plugin, I discovered this error:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted (tried to allocate Y bytes)…

    After some research I discovered recommendations to change the php.ini file by adding this line:

    memory_limit = 12M

    Once that edit was made, the 500 errors began, and I can’t seem to fix this. I am using an old version of wordpress and should probably upgrade anyway. Should I try to do that first to see if that resolves the issues?

    Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Have you removed the memory_limit line from your .htaccess file yet?

    Thread Starter elisalou

    (@elisalou)

    It took me a while to find it (unhiding files) but I just did it and it is working once again.

    I am still getting the following error message when I check into the flickr plugin:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /export/home/el/elisalou.com/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/silaspartners/flickr/lib.xml.php on line 80

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10 bytes) in /export/home/el/elisalou.com/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 219

    Also, when I was backing up my wordpress files, I found it was taking forever because it was synching up hundreds of cache folders and files as part of the flickr plugin, located along this path:

    \wp-content\plugins\silaspartners\flickr\flickr-cache

    I have no idea if this cache is necessary or not. Seems to be related to the problem.

    I know nothing about that plugin, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to manually clear out that cache direcctory.

    As far as the allowed memory size error, you might try asking your host to give you a bit more (since your .htaccess method didn’t work). You might also see if you have any other plugins that you could disable and see if that gets you back under the max mem cap.

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