PHP Composer update “cannot allocate memory” error (using Laravel 4)

Question

I just can\'t solve this one.

I\'m on Linode 1G RAM basic plan. Trying to install a package via Composer and it\'s not letting me. My memory limit is set to \"-1\" o

Answer 1

composer update

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

> mmap() failed: [12] Cannot allocate memory

Update memory on Server and require '4G' Change 4GB Ram [try to change server type or add more ram]

2 Files We need to edit

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on command

# cd /var/www/html
# nano .htaccess

and edit "memory_limit 756M” to 4G

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Php ini on php 7.0

# cd ~
# php –-ini
# sudo nano /etc/php-7.0.ini

memory_limit = 128M to 4G

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