So I was banging my head against the wall with this error and have upgraded my site manually the last couple times but this time I decided to dig a little into the error and see if I could finally resolve this. I found the normal articles about increasing the PHP memory in various places but like most of us I don’t host my website, 1and1 hosting is my preferred host so there isn’t much I could do about the php.ini file now is there? Well actually with 1and1 they give you control over your .htaccess file and you can create additional php.ini files in any directory and 1and1 will prefer your changes in your file. I first followed an article which suggested creating a php.ini file and adding to both the root directory and the wp-admin directory with this following This didn’t make any difference and I didn’t think it would considering the default memory allocation according to my phpinfo file as already 40MB. ~sidenote: If you want to know your current PHP.ini file configuration settings you can
