Slow and 504 errors

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I’m having speed problems with my Local install and seeing 504 errors. The sites are pretty much unusable it’s so slow. I tried disabled Xdebug which did not work. :frowning:

I have a brand new (2015 model) 16gb Macbook Pro.

Thanks
Clark

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Here’s a screenshot of the 504 error.

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Hey Clark,

This happened to me at first with my Windows version, and I just enabled Apache instead of Nginx, restarted the server and it worked.

Gregg

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Hi Greg

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I tried swapping to Apache and it seems to have fixed the 504 error but the site it still extremely slow.

Thanks
Clark

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Any updates on this? 504 and very slow. Any logs we can check to see what is happening?

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Hi all,

Site speed is dramatically increasing in the next major update to Local.

Also, @bluedogdigital, did you restart the site after changing the php.ini file and then verify your phpinfo()?

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Hi Clay. I was unable to fix the issue, so I rebuilt my Mac and now it’s working OK. Thanks.

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I’m experiencing the same problem @clay. The load time for my store.dev/wp-admin/network/plugin-install.php page was 54 seconds. The load time after editing the php.ini file was 1.4mins.

Any other suggestions?

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Hi Job,

What change did you make to php.ini? Have you tried disabling the Xdebug extension?

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You mean this? Speed Issues on Local Machine

Yeah, I added the semicolon before the zend_extension = /opt/php/7.0.3/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012/xdebug.so line

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Hi all,

Be sure to check out Local 2.0. It has various site performance improvements.

For more info check out Local by Flywheel 2.0.0 (Pre-release)

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So I’ve found a way to solve it (temporarily) - as soon as I turn my internet off, suddenly the speed is amazing. I just can’t afford to have my internet off the whole time.

Busy downloading 2.0 and will see if that solves it. @clay

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I’ve just set up a new local site with a different local URL and this one is working fine without problems. I’ve tried deleting the other one and reusing that old URL but it keeps being horrible. I can continue with the new site, but would be interested to see what is happening with the other one (config was exactly the same btw)

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Job,

One thing you can try is the Airplane Mode plugin. This will disable outbound requests from WordPress entirely: https://github.com/norcross/airplane-mode

If you want to dig deeper and find the slow request, you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/