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If you are using WAMP server for local WordPress development and WordPress Running Too Slow On
Localhost. You should disable cgi_module. Read tutorial to learn more.

Posted on June 29, 2016 (http://justlearnwp.com/wordpress-running-too-slow-on-localhost-solution/) by Tahir Taous

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I have been using WAMP server for a long time to set up local WordPress installations, Local development Servers like WAMP,
XAMPP and Bitmami makes is very simple and easy to build WordPress themes, plugins and Websites for customers.

WAMP, XAMPP and Bitnami are free softwares. You can set up a local development server very easily with these awesome
free products. I like to use WAMP, because I can set up multiple local WordPress installations.

You can also use XAMPP or Bitnami, both are awesome products. In this article, I am going to share few tips for WordPress
developers to make WordPress load faster on localhost.

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If you are using WordPress and WAMP server for local development and localhost takes too much time to load your site. You
can very easily solve this problem.

especially, If WordPress running too slow on localhost and taking too much time to load. You can fix this issue very easily.

NOTE: Solution 1 worked for me and after disabling cgi_module, local WordPress website was very fast.

You can also read the original thread at stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10750964/wamp-is-

running-very-slow)

1. Disable Cgi_module In WAMP

The solution that worked for me was to disable cgi_module. Use one of these methods:

Method 1: Right click on WAMP > Apache > Apache Modules> uncheck “cgi_module”

Method 2: Edit httpd.conf and disable the loading of the CGI module by commenting this line:

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

Commenting would be just adding a # in front, like this:

#LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

Restart the Apache service and you should be good to go.

See the screenshot below.

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 how to Disable Cgi_module In WAMP

2. Disable XDebug
It was PHP itself where the bottleneck was occurring. I disabled XDebug and my page-load time
went from ~1200ms to ~275ms. That was where the biggest single gain occurred, by far.
—Turibe (http://stackoverflow.com/users/877574/turibe)

How To Disable XDebug

If you are using WAMP server, left click on WAMP Server in System Tray, Go to PHP > php.ini. open this file in text editor,
Search for XDEBUG and add following 3 lines.

Set xdebug autostart to false

xdebug.remote_autostart=0

xdebug.remote_enable=0

Disable your profiller

xdebug.profiler_enable=0

You can see the screenshot below.

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 How To Disable XDebug WAMP Server

Source: StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10750964/wamp-is-running-very-slow)

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9 Responses On “Solved: WordPress Running Too Slow On

Localhost”

Loremar Guimarães
March 23, 2017 at 1:01 am
(http://justlearnwp.com/wordpress-running-too-slow-on-localhost-solution/#comment-2632)

Disabling CGI worked for me. It’s running much faster now. I think that I would have to tune it up a little more but disabling
CGI turned admin panel usable again. Thanks!

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scuzzy (http://appleseedinfo.org)
March 14, 2017 at 4:50 am
(http://justlearnwp.com/wordpress-running-too-slow-on-localhost-solution/#comment-2617)

I’ve had the same problem on Linux. Nothing worked including disabling cgi, tuning databases, etc.
Here’s what did work for me. Running Centos 7.3.
I have multiple vhosts running under Apache 2.4.
WP domain: mysite.org
In /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 mysite.org
This was slow as heck on a fast computer. I’d tried everything. Then I determined it was a problem was with WP resolving
‘things.’ WP uses locahost.
My IP address on my local network was 192.168.0.106. I then tried that.
Changed /etc/hosts
192.168.0.106 mysite.org
Now WP runs fast on my local test server.

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Tahir Taous Post author

March 15, 2017 at 4:28 pm

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310 thanks for sharing your experience.

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mk
May 8, 2017 at 10:10 am
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steps:
1. get local ipadress
2. do change on host file
3. change wordpress adress in wp-admin/options-general

*might be that it just feels faster after this but thats also something… :D…

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Faisal (http://gooeos.com)
February 26, 2017 at 1:23 pm
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Hi Admin…
after i use google AdSense and analytics code in WordPress My site is slow, and they told me to fix it as below Do you have a
solution to this problem.
Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP header
pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (60 minutes)
pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/osd.js (60 minutes)
google-analytics.com/analytics.js (2 hours)
My site: gooeos.com

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Tahir Taous Post author

March 9, 2017 at 11:57 am

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Try this free plugin Far Future Expiry Header (https://wordpress.org/plugins/far-future-expiry-header/)

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I still can not fix this problem

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Kubara
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Thank you!

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