Title: Slow Processing on Test Server
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Slow Processing on Test Server

 *  [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * (@kiusau)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-processing-on-test-server/)
 * Question: What are common causes of delayed processing when using WordPress with
   an off-line test server?
 * I recently set up WordPress on my iMac test server. Although the default WordPress
   webpage appears, it takes what seems like forever.
 * Apache: 2.4.16
    PHP: 5.5.27 MySQL: 5.6.26

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 *  [dainemawer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dainemawer/)
 * (@dainemawer)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-processing-on-test-server/#post-6729278)
 * Depending on your theme, you may have certain links to hosted versions of jQuery
   and/or Google Fonts, even though your installation is on your computer, outbound
   links to hosted versions still require the internet. This may cause a delay in
   load time. For local development try as much as you can to use local files. This
   will help load time a lot!
 *  [Dion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diondesigns/)
 * (@diondesigns)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-processing-on-test-server/#post-6729346)
 * Go to phpMyAdmin (or use the mysql command line) and make sure your database 
   user has access to host 127.0.0.1 in addition to localhost. Then go to wp-config.
   php and change DB_HOST to 127.0.0.1 (it’s no doubt localhost right now). Now 
   try loading WordPress. Are your page load times any better?
 *  [bobnwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobnwp/)
 * (@bobnwp)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-processing-on-test-server/#post-6729361)
 * I suggest you do a Google search on:
 * wp local slow response
 * and then go through all the hits
 * I had really slow response – 21 seconds to access any of the WP pages.
 * I started reading the pages found by Google and tried a few of the suggestions.
 * The one that finally did the trick for me was to comment out two lines in the
   windows hosts file (I don’t know if such a file existed on a Mac)
 * The hosts file looked like this after I set up a WAMP package and created virtual
   hosts.
 * 127.0.0.1 localhost
 * 127.0.0.1 -my domain name
    127.0.0.1 virtualtest
 * ::1 localhost
    ::1 -my domain name –
 * -my domain name – represents the name of my domain, it is not the actual entry
   in my hosts file.
 * I commented out (put # characters in front of) the two lines starting with ::
   1
 * #::1 localhost
    #::1 -my domain name –
 * I saved the hosts file and tried accessing my local host and it responded in 
   less than 1 second.
 * I’m not saying this is the fix for you problem but it is worth doing some Google
   searches and reading the hits.
 * Relying on someone on a WP forum to give you the answer to a problem like this
   is unrealistic – particularly since it is not a WP problem but a local host configuration
   problem.
 * You must always search and search and search again when you have a problem.
 * Good luck.
 * If you find a fix, come back to this post and post a reply to tell us what you
   changed to make it work. That way someone searching for solutions might find 
   this post and know what you did to fix it – it might not apply to everyone but
   it might help someone.
 * Too often someone will ask a question and then later post “I fixed it” without
   saying how they fixed it. That is very frustrating.
 * Bob
 *  [bobnwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobnwp/)
 * (@bobnwp)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-processing-on-test-server/#post-6729362)
 * Me again –
 * I forgot to give you a [link to the page](http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2010/07/fixing-slow-apache-on-localhost-under.html)
   I found which had the solution for me.
 * May not help you, but I wanted to include it here for others.
 * Bob

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