WP just took dump on me during an upgrade, help please!

[Mike Panic]

Upgrading from 2.3.1 WP to the newest, everything was fine until the last moment and I now get this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1405866 bytes) in /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 529

Line 529 in the PHP file is:

$string = $this->_real_escape( $string );

Line's 528-9 are:

function escape_by_ref(&$string) {
$string = $this->_real_escape( $string );

Because this was an upgrade, I renamed the .php file and uploaded a fresh one from a download at wp.org and get the same error, and it shows on the root directory of the blog, the admin login, everything. I put a support ticket into the host, but figured I'd try here to see if anyone could shed some light.

 

[patrick24601]

You took backups first right? Backups of your entire set of php files? Backups of your database?

 

[Mike Panic]

You took backups first right? Backups of your entire set of php files? Backups of your database?

Yes, I have them all backed up.

 

[whackamule]

Email your host with the error. They should be able to bump up the PHP limit on memory size to take care of this.

 

[Mike Panic]

Thanks - I'm hoping it's just something as simple as that, waiting on a reply from them now.

 

[Mike Panic]

Added

php_value memory_limit 64M

To the .htaccess file and all is better now.

 

[kblessinggr]

Added

php_value memory_limit 64M

To the .htaccess file and all is better now.

The change could have also been done in wp-settings.php , which normally has 32 by default.