What could be the cause of these very unlikely high memory allocations attempts, I notice lately on my production server:
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1006632960 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 51002234388 bytes) in D:\wp\wp-includes\load.php on line 1466
This happened in Wordpress (see error message), but also in Lime Survey.
I'm running PHP 7.4.27 on Windows Apache 2.4.21 on a Windows Server 2008.
The error is consistent (same number of bytes, same script, same line) and remains after a server restart.
Strangely I could get rid of the error in a Lime Survey installation by simply moving all the script files to a different folder.
Edit: Same now: Downloading via FTP all the script files in D:\wp, creating a new directory D:\wp and uploading all the files fia FTP, the error vanished. What's going on here?
Thank you!
The cause is most likely plugin related.
I would check:
wordpress error logs
php error logs
Apache error logs
server error logs
any pending cron jobs.
isolate and debug any plugin DB queries.
are there any heavy reports (DB generated)
Isolating which plugin, can be done by using a live backup, and deleting/disabling plugins one at a time.
Increasing the memory limit may be done through wordpress, but may not bite, unless configured on the server or php level.
1 - check PHP 7.4 memory limit
(check php.ini -- check folder configuration
in the windows)
2 - Insert memory limit in wp-config.php
3- insert the memory limit in .htaccess
4 - Check the plugins.
5 - Possibly have a hidden malicious code file
( 5.1 - look for files with the same name as the folder. Example: FOLDER = theme (when entering the folder) there is a file with the name = .theme.php
5.2 - Analyze your index.php, wp-config.php or .htaccess (if they were not auterated, enter codes)
6 - Analyze the logs
Now, after a while I strongly guess it was the opcache functionality, that caused the error. Maybe after updating some of the scripts did conflict with left untouched ones in the opcache.
Turning off the opcache did the trick (till now :)).
I am having an issue when I have a php application that is returning an internal server error (500) however nothing is showing up in the error log.
Now I know there are error with what I am trying to run, I know I have missing some files and what not but something should show in the apache error log (otherwise how are I supposed to know exactly what I am missing).
I created a test script is errors it in under the same vhost configuration and those error show up fine so everything seems configured right as far as php/apache. Are there certain php errors that does show up in the error log (php is configure to display any type of notice, warning, , error, fatal error, etc...)?
This is running on ubunut 10.04 with the standard apache and php from the ubuntu repo with apt-get.
Scan your source files to find #.
From php documentation site
Currently the "#" error-control operator prefix will even disable
error reporting for critical errors that will terminate script
execution. Among other things, this means that if you use "#" to
suppress errors from a certain function and either it isn't available
or has been mistyped, the script will die right there with no
indication as to why.
Copy and paste the following into a new .htaccess file and place it on your website's root folder :
php_flag display_errors on
php_flag display_startup_errors on
Errors will be shown directly in your page.
That's the best way to debug quickly but don't use it for long time because it could be a security breach.
If you still have 500 error and no logs you can try to execute from command line:
php -f file.php
it will not work exactly like in a browser (from server) but if there is syntax error in your code, you will see error message in console.
Maybe something turns off error output. (I understand that you are trying to say that other scripts properly output their errors to the errorlog?)
You could start debugging the script by determining where it exits the script (start by adding a echo 1; exit; to the first line of the script and checking whether the browser outputs 1 and then move that line down).
In the past, I had no error logs in two cases:
The user under which Apache was running had no permissions to modify php_error_log file.
Error 500 occurred because of bad configuration of .htaccess, for example wrong rewrite module settings. In this situation errors are logged to Apache error_log file.
For Symfony projects, be sure to check files in the project'es app/logs
More details available on this post :
How to debug 500 Error in Symfony 2
Btw, other frameworks or CMS share this kind of behaviour.
Here is another reason why errors might not be visible:
I had the same issue. In my case, I had copied the source from a production environment. Hence the ENVIRONMENT variable defined in index.php was set to 'production'. This caused error_reporting to be set to 0 (no logging). Just set it to 'development' and you should start seeing error messages in apache log.
Turned out the 500 was due to a semi colon missing in database config :-)
Another case which happened to me, is I did a CURL to some of my pages, and got internal server error and nothing was in the apache logs, even when I enabled all error reporting.
My problem was that in the CURL I set
curl_setopt($CR, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
Which then didn't show me my error, though there was one, this happened because the error was on a framework level and not a PHP one, so it didn't appear in the logs.
You need to enable the PHP error log.
This is due to some random glitch in the web server when you have a php error, it throws a 500 internal error (i have the same issue).
If you look in the PHP error log, you should find your solution.
see here in the doc of how to enable it in the php.ini
Be sure your file permissions are correct. If apache doesn't have permission to read the file then it can't write to the log.
What happened for me when this was an issue, was that the site had used too much memory, so I'm guessing that it couldn't write to an error log or displayed the error. For clarity, it was a Wordpress site that did this. Upping the memory limit on the server showed the site again.
SOLVED
I struggled with this and later on, I realized that I was working on PHP 5.6, so I upgraded to PHP 7.0, then I released there were comments placed by git for conflicting codes. I found something like this in my code <<<<<<<< But solved it.
I have a VB.NET software that uploads files using an HTTP request to PHP. This worked fine until May but now it fails when uploading files over 65KB. I can not tell when it stops to work exactly. Even though, I don't think it is relevant. So to be clear, uploading a file under 65KB works correctly.
I looked with my hoster and he doesn't see any error neither do I on the server (the part I have access). VB.NET doesn't give me a pertinent error, but using WireShark, I've been able to get either a 500 or a 400 error. But it didn't give me clues on what is failing.
I verified this question which is not solved, though the things said there are OK on the server too.
PHP not uploading file over 55 kb
I have another option to fix it: splitting my files in chunks of 50KB and rejoining them via PHP. Though, I rather understand what is happening because this can happen again even with chunks of 50KB.
Server is Apache/2.4.28 (Unix)
EDIT 1
I have new conditions: I now have my own server running on Windows + Apache 2.4 + PHP 5.6.
Now it goes a little farther. I have an error when using move_uploaded_file function that gives me: Error #3: The uploaded file was only partially uploaded. It is coherent with the file being stopped to be sent near the end. So I now receive an HTTP 200 response but a failure after ward even though I suspect not being there.
I can certify I did not stop my VB.NET software that is uploading the file.
I tested changing KeepAlive to Off/False on both sides. No luck :(
Tried to add header ("Connection: close"); in my main file (that is used for all transactions with this VB.NET software). No luck.
Even though, it is not currently an issue, I changed (PHP configs) the upload_max_filesize to 256M and post_max_size to 300M (because it will be a problem if a can figure out this one).
I got those suggestions from : https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/176465/failed-media-upload-the-uploaded-file-was-only-partially-uploaded
The only one I could not try is replacing an apache/php module which doesn't seem to exist on Windows.
Depending on your server's configuration, when an error 500 is returned an error_log is written. The problem is with the error 400. Which according to wikipedia's list of HTTP codes is actually a BAD REQUEST. Some output from your error_log when the attempt is being made might put us in the right direction.
i got a script which creates a list implementation of messages being sent between users.
Everything works fine, till the amount of messages rises up to about 77.000.
For every message a object will be created and every object has a reference to the next message object.
I enabled error reporting and increased the memory limit - I don't get any errors and the http status code is a 200 Ok, even if the developer console tells me that the request failed.
If you have verified that it is not a memory limit issue, this could be a limitation of PHP....similar to this question:
How to Avoid PHP Object Nesting/Creation Limit?
If you need to work with 77 000 objects in the same PHP script - it is something wrong with the architecture, php is not right choice for such calculations (even if it can handle this under some circumstances)
to track this particular error try to set in php.ini:
display_errors=1
display_startup_errors=1
error_reporting=-1
log_errors=1
memory_limit=to any reasonable value
max_input_time=to any reasonable value
max_execution_time=to any reasonable value
report_memleaks=1
error_log=writable path
consider using xdebug extension
don't forget to restart apache after changing proper php.ini (you can have different php.ini for apache and cli)
check if any set_error_handler or set_exception_handler functions are called in your code
Im running a long php script which handles large amounts of data.
The problem is that the script suddenly stops and no exception is thrown or could be found on the error_log.
I have set the display_errors and the error_logging to 1 in the .ini config file.
Few more details:
1) The scripts executes the 'file_get_contents' function for many times.
2) The scripts contains recursion when the file_get_contents fails.
Any help would be appriciated.
It might have hit the max execution time.
set_time_limit(0); // to increase the timelimit to infinity
Error loging configs are different depending on your hosting environment. I'd first verify that you're editing the right php.ini file. Take a look at your phpinfo output and make sure that those params are indeed set and check the path/file for where errors are being logged to. Sometimes it goes to the apache error log, other times it can be sent to a dedicated php log. Are you able to get any error output if you purposefully create a syntax error? You might also consider looking in your syslog to see if there's anything there.