Magento

ok, I’ve just installed magento on my mac running the latest MAMP release and for every page except the index page I’m getting these errors:

[31-Aug-2007 20:10:57] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 140 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Pager.php on line 200
[31-Aug-2007 20:13:49] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/magento/lib/Varien/Filter/Template.php on line 172
[31-Aug-2007 20:16:45] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 140 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Review/Model/Review/Summary.php on line 34
[31-Aug-2007 20:16:54] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 140 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Review/Model/Review/Summary.php on line 34
[01-Sep-2007 00:38:27] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/magento/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html/top.links.phtml on line 1

Anyone got any ideas?

You should increase the memory_limit value in your php.ini file for your webserver.
Check the line memory_limit =
First try to double the value (16M)

Ok i’ve tried that with no luck, I’d have thought its a limit set in each script somewhere but can’t say I’ve got the time to take this on yet :/

Don’t forget to restart httpd service after changing php.ini values

If 16M dosent work go higher untill it does. Worked for me. Like Magento team said remember to restart your server.

Thanks Magento team.

Changing memory_limit to read 32M in php.ini on a current release of MAMP fixed the problem for me immediately.

ah right, cool it works: set it to “32M”. =]

Why does it need so much memory? The default for the majority of web hosts is 8 meg....

Just to mention a topic when using MAMP and MAMP PRO:

Be aware that the two apps use DIFFERENT php.ini files!

For example the MAMP uses this

Even though both apps are installed when using MAMP PRO, they use different php.ini.
(BTW: Same thing with httpd.conf, my.cnf and php4.ini.)

The problem is, that the phpinfo() says something different, too:

And to that directory the php.ini from (2) is copied when MAMP PRO ist started.

One can easily see the effekt when changing tbe (3)-File and restart MAMP PRO. The values are reset to the values in (2).

Hope this will helpfull for someone.

Greets