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  • #1236572
    Deepak

    Hello,

    I am importing one of your themes and I get this 504 Bad Gateway error.

    I understand I am supposed to add

    fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

    But where exactly do we add this? I am using site ground and am in my File Manager. But where exactly do we add this?

    #1236585
    Deepak

    I spoke to siteground,

    They told me:

    Dobrin I.: I have checked your account and I can see you are currently on the GrowBig shared hosting plan

    Dobrin I.: and we are not able to edit the config file on the server

    Dobrin I.: as that will affect a lot of clients

    #1236590
    Deepak

    I added

    define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
    define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true );

    To my Wp_config.php

    I am unable to find my Debug.log in Wp-content either…

    #1236638
    Deepak

    Only the very basic themes are importing all the rest are giving me 504 gateway timeout. This is very frustrating after spending hours trying to find solutions and I really assumed paying for Generatepress with how robust it seemed, I wouldn’t be having to do much troubleshooting.

    I searched the forums here for solutions but I can’t find any solution in any prior thread

    plz help

    #1236671
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Hi there,

    If you’d added WP_DEBUG_LOG, you should find a debug.log file in your wp_content folder. However, you need to make the error happen for an error to create the file.

    If only basic sites are importing, it likely means your server is hitting its limits when important the heavier content sites. Siteground usually works fine, but it’s possible you’re on a server that already has high resource usage.

    #1236672
    Deepak

    So what should i do?

    #1236675
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Make sure WP_DEBUG and WP_DEBUG_LOG are still added, then run the import again until the error appears.

    Then look for the debug.log file.

    If it doesn’t display, you’ll need to check with Siteground to make sure errors are reporting.

    The log will at least tell us a more specific cause of the error. My guess is that it’s server resource-related, which is tough if the server techs aren’t willing to increase resources.

    Is the error happening during the content import process (step 2)?

    #1236676
    Deepak

    Yes step 2, please see here: https://imgur.com/a/6TApRM5

    #1236678
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Ah yea, the WooCommerce sites are particularly heavy when it comes to content.

    How long does it take for the error to happen approximately?

    #1236679
    Deepak

    It would occur in 2 minutes then the Siteground guy said he increased my timeout time to 300 seconds then it still occurred but after a longer period of time

    #1236682
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    It shouldn’t take that long, which tells me the server is already taxed. Shared servers are a pain like this, as other sites on the same server could be using up the majority of the resources.

    Your solution would be to manually import the content: https://gpsites.co/files/target/content.xml

    You would import this in Tools > Import using the core WordPress importer.

    The only down-side to this is it won’t complete the site library importer, which means things like menus and widgets won’t be imported.

    You could try the site library again after importing the content, as it should skip a lot of the existing content that was imported in the core importer.

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