Jeffkan1

Turned out to be a plug-in that was the problem. I would rename the plugins folder back to the correct “plugins”, then would activate plug-ins one at a time until I got the “Fatal error:” message.

I just deleted the folder for that plugin from within the plugins folder, and all is right with the world.

Interesting facts: this problem plugin was not the last plugin that I installed, so it was working fine for several months. *shrugs shoulders*

I have a way to manage things… I’ve renamed the wp-content\plugins folder to “pluginsHOLD”, and I am able to log in to wp-admin page at that point.

Will post more info later when I determine the problem.

Went to Network Solutions forum, found instructions for how and where to create the php.ini file. It said the root directory’s cgi-bin folder is where the php.ini file goes.

I put in the following to the php.ini file and uploaded it to the cgi-bin folder:

memory_limit = 64M
output_buffering = 2048

Started the website, comes up fine. Tried to access the wp-admin, same error as before.

Any assistance is appreciated, thanks!

Thanks for the quick reply Samuel! Appreciate it.

I have tried the various methods to correct the PHP memory_limit, by adding it to the wp-config.php, and by creating a php.ini file in the wp-admin folder and adding the memory limit there. No help. And the forum posts describing these fixes were from 2 yrs ago, 3 yrs ago, etc.

Also, the actions described by people that caused this error were related to installing plug-ins, for example. My error seemed to be caused by me typing 25 characters in a widget. Could that really have caused a PHP limit problem? Just seems like the error doesn’t truly represent the problem, but maybe it does.

Thanks again for your help. So I need to contact my hosting service Network Solutions and ask them what is the correct way to raise my PHP memory limit?

Hello, I just searched for it on the Plug-Ins screen, and it did not come up. So it must not be free, sorry.

Yep, got it. Settings | Reading | Front Page Displays.

Thumbs UP! lol

Hmm, my guess is that my “Home” page that I’m working on and editing is not the landing page when I go to https://xxxx.com/htdocs/subf.

Where is the setting for the landing page, shown to the website visitor, when they go to xxxx.com/htdocs/subf?

Sorry James, me again. I created dev.newagemh.com to point to the same host URL (that I use for FTP) as newagemh.com.

So in the last step of the installation, when I go to dev.newagemh.com, it just resolves to the website that newagemh.com has “web forwarding” set up.

Do I need to have dev.newagemh.com point to a different host URL than newagemh.com?

It looks like, as long as newagemh.com has web forwarding to https://www.newageindustrial.com/Catalog/Material%20Handling, any other domain like dev.newagemh.com that points to the same host URL won’t allow me get to the WordPress /wp-admin login screen.

Awesome! *popping knuckles* Time to get to it…

Thanks James.

I didn’t explain it well James, my apologies.

I have just installed it on newagemh.com a few days ago, so I’m guessing, based on what I’ve done and what I want to do, I can just start fresh by deleting the WordPress installation on newagemh.com, then it will be as if I’m starting where I was about a week ago… no website on newagemh.com.

I have created dev.newagemh.com, so I’d think I can install WordPress there, create a new MySQL database, then go to dev.newagemh.com/wp-admin, build website there. And do all this while newagemh.com points to another website that’s alive.

Once website is ready to go live, move it using your link above, from dev.newagemh.com to newagemh.com. Finally, as you said, once I’m confident the move is done completely, I can delete the website from dev.newagemh.com.

How does that sound?

Hi James,

To clarify my steps, I would delete the WordPress installation at newagemh.com, create the subdomain dev.newagemh.com, then create an FTP connection to dev.newagemh.com, and install WordPress there. Correct?

Thanks for the suggestion James! I will give this a try and let you know how it goes.

I see, just create a new database, go from there. Makes sense, thanks.