Topic: SMF causes blank page

[ober]

OH, I have no problem restarting late at night.  The user base is in the US and I've taken the board down multiple times in the past in the evening.

I was just thinking I could avoid the whole thing if I set a local php.ini file.

[ober]

OK, so I just created a local php.ini file with a few settings and I asked the members to do some testing.  We'll see, but I wonder if we have the same problem here because people have complained about stuff like that happening.

[ober]

Ok, so it's definitely the memory issue but my local php.ini file didn't affect it.  I put this in it:

memory_limit = 32M
upload_max_filesize = 8M

I'm fairly certain it's the first one that is causing the problem but I threw the second one in just for kicks.  I'm still getting the same fatal memory errors from the graphics manipulation file in the Sources doc.  Is there another memory setting I should be adjusting or is my local php.ini file just not overriding the core one?  I tried editing the core php.ini file but it's read-only and I can't chmod it.

[Mike]

I would throw up a phpinfo file in the smf directory to see if it is being affected or not.  Can you edit the http.conf file or the conf file for whatever affects that directory?  If so you can use "php_value memory_limit = 32M" (w/o ") to override the value.

[ober]

Yeah, I read somewhere about adding that to the .htaccess file.  I might try that.

[webwhy]

yeah..mike's right.  verify you settings are taking by viewing a phpnifo().  if they're not, restart the php processes that are serving requests.  if that does't work you might be able to set the value in .htaccess or ini_set() in the code.