Archive | September, 2009

Installing LAMP stack on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard

Updated instructions are available for installing LAMP on OSX 10.7 Lion. I’m setting up a new machine and found a great tutorial written by Josh Lockhart on getting a PHP web development environment up and running on Snow Leopard.  This goes through almost everything to be up and running for a typical LAMP stack with [...]

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PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory exhausted

One of our sync servers started throwing a “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted” when dealing with some large data sets.  We easily fixed it by bumping up the php.ini memory_limit setting. It seems that the default 16Mb was a pretty low setting and it was probably inevitable that it would need [...]

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