How to Increase PHP Memory Limit in cPanel

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Immediate Fix (2 Minutes)

Recommended: Use cPanel PHP Selector for easiest fix

Method 1: cPanel PHP Selector

  1. Login to cPanel
  2. Go to "Select PHP Version"
  3. Click "Switch to PHP Options"
  4. Find "memory_limit" option
  5. Change value to 256M
  6. Click "Apply"

Alternative Methods

Method 2: .user.ini File

# Create in public_html
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M

Method 3: .htaccess (Apache)

php_value memory_limit 256M
Application Memory Limit
WordPress 256M - 512M
Magento 512M - 1G
Joomla 256M
Custom PHP 128M - 256M

Verify Changes

<?php
echo ini_get('memory_limit');
?>

Create this as info.php in your public_html and visit it.



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