I am not a programmer, more of a site configurer.
About a week and a half ago I updated the site to D7.7. Everything seemed fine for a few days. I proceeded to add pages over the next few days. With one page, I realized I needed to add to the taxonomy vocabulary so this page could be properly displayed in a search ( a new selection). Once I added the vocabulary the site indicated out of memory errors. That action must have put it over the top since I did not have any issues prior. I'm on 1and1 1&1 Linux shared hosting, so I've been sensitive to adding anything complex so as not to bump up against their php limit of 32 Mb. As said many times by others, even though you may set a higher memory limit elsewhere (.htaccess, settings.php, etc), 1&1 still limits you to 32Mb. I do not have root access and cannot run code.
In the past, I've been able to connect using FTP to my host and just delete a couple of modules that are really not necessary. Then I've been able to login, clear the cache and I seemed to be fine. I sometimes left those modules out. I've deleted a few small modules hoping to get back to a usable mode. Now i can't even get past the memory error to login, so I can't do much without being able to log in. I did use Backup to save a copy of the DB prior to the D7.7 install (it was 7.4 before) so if I could login, I could go back to that.
Is there any way I can semi-easily troubleshoot and recover from this? If so, how? I know I can start from scratch and am trying to avoid that, because that is more than a weeks worth of work.
TIA,
Tom
Comments
1:Can you backup your DB now
1:Can you backup your DB now by hosting cpanel? You must do it first.
2: Tar Tar.gz package of all your websites files, and download it to your computer
Yes, run your website on yourself localhost to test.
You have the root access with Your computer, to check it, maybe your website spend more and more ram.
This way can make your db safe, and lost works less.
Hope to helpful to you.
now what?
Thanks Laser for your response. Okay, so I can get it running locally by allowing plenty of RAM. So what? I still need to use the host for the actual site. What do I do to get it to run remotely, on the host? Is there some way, I can reduce RAM load via FTP? How can I regain login capability on the host?
TIA,
Tom
Your localhost is a mirror
Your localhost is a mirror from your Host ( as your 1&1 hosting),try to test and test , optimize your drupal again and again.
Less modules using,less views using, less js using, try add-on cache module e.g: path auto, Path Cache.
others helpful article:
http://drupal.org/node/281405
http://drupal.org/requirements
hope help you.