title: Can't increase MAMP php memory limit
body: <p>I've been trying to increase the php memory_limit in MAMP (Mac OSX). The version of PHP I'm using is 5.4.1.0. I've read about creating a new template for MAMP Pro, but I'm using the standard version of MAMP.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried all of the below, but nothing seems to have worked. Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your time.</p>
  
  <p><hr>
  I've added the following to my site's htaccess file, which is read by the site and works (ExpressionEngine). But the master PHP limit is still not updating.</p>
  
  <pre><code>php_value memory_limit 128M
  </code></pre>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>I've changed the following from 32M to 128M in the following file:</p>
  
  <p><strong>/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.4.10</strong> <br/>
  <code>memory_limit = 128M</code>      ;</p>
  
  <p>I then quit MAMP entirely and restarted it, but in MAMP phpInfo it still reads: <br/> 
  <em>memory_limit 32M</em></p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>Virtual Hosts</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am using Virtual Hosts to set my own URLs. I read somewhere that it may be necessary to increase the memory limit here. So I added this to the 'php_value memory_limit 128M':</p>
  
  <p><strong>/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
   DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
   ServerName localhost
   php_value memory_limit 128M
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and lower down in the same file in the relevant site's configuration:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
    DocumentRoot "/Users/Username/Dropbox/Dev/sitename.dev"
    ServerName sitename.dev
    php_value memory_limit 128M
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(By the way, I keep my MAMP folder (Dev) in Dropbox and it works fine)</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>php.ini</strong></p>
  
  <p>I also added a php.ini file with the following contents in both the root of my site directory and the root of my MAMP directory:</p>
  
  <pre><code>memory_limit = 128M
  </code></pre>