Localhost taking too long. What to do?

Question

I'm working on a project. Yesterday it was working very fine but when I've updated my system OS from Windows 7 32 bit to Windows 8 64 bit and wamp server from 32 bit to 64 bit now I'm getting very slow localhost response in my Php project (6 Senonds delay on each page) also I didn't change anything within the script. Unable to identify what could be the problem.

Solution 1

I just changed the server name from localhost to 127.0.0.1 in database connection configuration and it worked light speed.

Solution 2

Just want to share my fix with this similar problem.

Try changing the permission of the user "Authenticated Users" of the drive where XAMPP is installed (for me its C:). Right click Drive C:\, click "Security" tab, edit "Authenticated Users", allow everything except "full control" and "special permission" which you can't. Apply and OK. Restart XAMPP.

Solution 3

WAMPServer has some probelms with Windows 8. Use XAMPP. I am a hardcore WAMPServer user. But, had to switch to XAMPP due to some threading issues.

You can read more about the issue here.

Solution 4

Disabling the ipv6 also improves response speed issue.

http://www.techunboxed.com/2012/08/how-to-disable-ipv6-in-windows-8.html

Solution 5

As an IPV6 issue, here is how you make MYSQL not to use it. (so, without disabling IPV6)

edit mysql file 'my.ini'

under the [wampmysqld] add the following: bind-address = ::

save file and restart mysql service

enjoy!

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Comments

[Ibn Saeed]

Where should i look for the constant.php file ?

[Artur Rain]

Same question here. Where is that constant.php?

[andrewtweber]

Changing the MySQL host from localhost to 127.0.0.1 has improved things, but still every few minutes, I have to wait 10-15 seconds for it to connect to the database. Incredibly frustrating

[Ginchen]

This helped me when trying to make my webserver accessible from the internet on Windows 8.1! It wouldn't work, not matter what I tried. It kept saying "Server not found" or "Timeout" all the time. Disabling IPv6 solved all my problems - both WAMP and XAMPP websites can not be accessed from the web! THANK YOU!

[Adrián E]

Completely life saving! The time taken to complete a request went from 4 seconds to instantaneous!

[Sahil Patel]

Still One of the best answer.