I want to install woocommerce on my website and have selected a new theme to do so. I even upgraded from an old server to a new one running the latest version of php.

However, I still get the same fatal crash every time I activate the woocommerce plugin:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64000 bytes) in home/******/*****/*****/settings.php on line 889

Is this something to do with my server settings? Can it be fixed without upgrading to yet another hosting package?

I want to install woocommerce on my website and have selected a new theme to do so. I even upgraded from an old server to a new one running the latest version of php.

However, I still get the same fatal crash every time I activate the woocommerce plugin:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64000 bytes) in home/******/*****/*****/settings.php on line 889

Is this something to do with my server settings? Can it be fixed without upgrading to yet another hosting package?

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Your WP install is attempting to exceed the PHP memory allocated to it. This limit may be defined by WordPress, your server configuration files such as .htaccess or php.ini, or your host.

WooCommerce has a doc explaining a few ways to increase it. They seem to recommend 256 MB.

WordPress does as well with some more details.

There are a few things you can try.

In WordPress:

Try adding the following to your wp-config.php file right above the line that says, “Happy Blogging”:

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );

In the php.ini:

If that does not work and you have access to your php.ini you edit the line that starts with memory_limit to look like the following:

memory_limit = 256M ;

In your .htaccess file:

The .htaccess can be found in the same directory as your wp-config.php file. Add the following on a new line:

php_value memory_limit 256M

Contact your host

If these do not work you'll need to contact your host to ask about the limits.