Recently I started developing magento 2 projects.
First I tried on Windows with xampp and it was a mess... every refresh page was a nightmare, about 30-40sec to load the page. I read about it, that Windows system files is so slow working with magento because the large structure it has, and the article almmost was forcing you to use linux for developing on magento projects.
The problem is I need Windows for another company apps that only works on Windows, I tried to install a virtual machine with Virtualbox, it improved a bit... but the fact I'm working on a virtual machine pissed me off...
The next solution and I'm working currently, is using vagrant. Okay, I feel good developing on this way but it keeps going slow... 15-20s...
My config on Vagrant is 5120MB (pc has 8GB) and use all my pc 4 cores.
I'm feeling so bad working like this... when I was working on my previous projects, with symfony/Laravel/Codeigniter, was like:
write some lines of code, tab to browser, F5, INSTANTLY see changes.
On M2: write some lines of code, tab to browser, F5, wait... wait... okay now it refreshes the page, but it's not loaded, wait... wait... hmmm almost... okay. No changes but I cleaned the cache... ohhh I guess I had to remove static files too. Go for it... wait again...
God... There's no way M2 goes faster? I'm only asking 5s or something like that... it's just I'm feeling so dumb looking the screen waiting all the time...
For aclarations, I'm only asking for development mode, I tried had to install another project of magento on production mode for testing things faster and then it's okay fluid as hell compared with developer mode... because... omg... just try to do an order workflow again and again...
Well that's all... The only thing I didn't try is using Linux environment on the computer... but it's just the same as using vagrant... I don't understand... how are you developing M2 developers? in special frontend developers... I don't believe they are working the same way as me... waiting 20sec for loading the pages + cleaning cache + removing static files, etc.
Details: I tried everything with vagrant but don't improve, I'm currently on Ubuntu 15.04, Apache 2.4, PHP 5.6 (I tried 7 but still the same) mysql 5.6
This is the network tab:
http://i.imgur.com/HG7mbeX.png
2018 Update, Magento 2.2.4
Vagrant + Windows + Magento2 = disaster. Vagrant + Apple + Magento2 = disaster.
Ubuntu + Magento2 = cooking on gas.
Simple modules, e.g. a widget, take many days more than the expected 2-3 hours and it is not possible to remember what you are doing if it takes a minute to open a page, particularly so if you have to clear caches, compile, upgrade or anything else that should take no-time-at-all.
This I have experienced first hand, from working in an office where the options are Mac or Windows. After spending a whole day trying to change the template directive and failing to make one configuration change in 8 hours, I thought about giving it a go on a linux box to see if I had gone mad or if this Vagrant contrivance is as helpful as that drunken bum sleeping rough in the park down the road.
The aged linux box with anaemic RAM, an old SSD, stock Apache and no fancy cache things completed the task without problem, I was able to switch between developer and production modes effortlessly and get what had taken me days to not do done in minutes.
The work machine was 8th generation i7, the Vagrant setup was very much someone's baby and a lot of time had been spent building the beast. Yet tectonic plates move faster. Vagrant and virtualisation might be fashionable but it is no use for M2 development. In fact I installed M2 and did all the db and vhost setup for it in less time than it takes for a Vagrant box to build.
As for performance, since M2 on a basic linux setup is 10x faster than some clumsy Vagrant effort, it is easy to see where the real speed problems of Magento 2 are. If you fire up Lighthouse in Chrome you will see TTFB is absolutely fine but the performance halves if you minify and merge the JS + CSS. This is because M2 has a megabyte of scripts to download. This is the performance killer. If you are working on a Vagrant box then you will never see this and not have the speed to fix it. By fix it I mean write a proper theme that doesn't have nonsense such as jQuery loading on every page.
For production you need something that scales so you can get the normal speed enhancements going for that, e.g. Redis, opcode caching, Varnish, tweaked php-fpm, tweaked MySQL/MariaDB. If you are developing on Linux then you can test these things on localhost knowing they will work fine on production. With that abomination that is Vagrant you will be dabbling with these optimisations prematurely because you are hoping and praying for a performant machine because you need to get work done. However, in so doing, and with the absence of native speed, you will not get anything done.
If you don't have a spare machine to put linux on then just go to the local tip, get any PC, shove an SSD in it and you are good to go.
This is my recipe for developing themes/modules in localhost for Magento 2.2 and 2.3:
MacBook Pro
Valet Plus (Nginx, MySQL 5.7, PHP7.1 and 7.2 - you can easily switch between PHP versions with valet use 7.1 or valet use 7.2) https://github.com/weprovide/valet-plus
memory_limit set to 4G
Be sure Magento is set to developer mode: php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer
ALL CACHES ENABLED except FPC. Whenever I need to test a change involving config files, etc I manually delete the content of the var/cache folder or the generated/code folder for DI changes. The cache type that specially slows down everything is the Configuration cache, so it must be enabled or the frontend/backend pages will load painfully slow.
I use Grunt Watch and the Livereload Chrome extension to see my changes to .less files without having to deploy static files with every change. https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/frontend-dev-guide/css-topics/css_debug.html
Whenever I change a JS file I navigate to pub/static/[adminhtml/frontend]/[theme]/[locale]/ and delete ONLY the folder where the static file corresponding to the JS file I changed lives in. This prevents me from having to deploy ALL the static files. Magento will regenerate just the static files for the deleted folder saving a LOT of time (be sure to do a hard refresh in your browser every time you delete a static file)
It’s still not a perfect setup but it’s the fastest way I’ve found so far to be productive without pulling my hair out.
I tried everything and the only thing it works is the virtual machine that provides bitnami. https://bitnami.com/stack/magento/virtual-machine
Seriously, I don't know what has this vm, but goes really fast. I tried creating my VM using a fresh installation of Ubuntu, CentOS, etc. But doesn't work so fine like this VM.
If you work in developer mode you need to disable JS/CSS merge, disable xdebug and enable opcache. Feel free to run thes MySQL queries on your dev DB and flush cache. This will increate the site performance in developer mode.
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/css/merge_css_files';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/css/minify_files';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/js/merge_files';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/js/minify_files';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/js/enable_js_bundling';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'dev/static/sign';
Try to disable synchronisation with default vagrant sync folder (just comment config.vm.synced_folder in VagrantFile and reload) - it's to slow when need to work with a lot of files...
Also in developer mode will be useful to generate static files:
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy and ensure that all caches are enabled: bin/magento cache:status
If it don't help you can try Magento DevBox tool based on Docker: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/install-gde/docker/docker-over.html
In "developer" mode, all caches were disabled.That why magento become slow.
I suggest to enable caches by execute command
./bin/magento cache:enable
However, you need to clean cache ./bin/magento cache:clean every time you modify xml files or configurations.
my recipe:
Use *nix as your main OS
Use docker with PHP 7 and Nginx
use gulp for generating css and js (faster than grunt)
use redis and varnish
disable only needed caches
And the most valuable advice - you really need SSD to work with magento2 if you still trying to develop on HDD
p/s Magento 2 more complicated than Symfony/Laravel/CI (M2 consist Symfony
by the way) and can't be so fast as pure frameworks
For production environment:
You must use Redis for handle Cache, Full Page Cache et Session
(http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/redis/config-redis.html)
You must use Varnish for HTTP cache built in with Magento
(http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/varnish/config-varnish.html)
You need to set up production Magento mode.
(http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/bootstrap/magento-modes.html)
You must use ElasticSearch for search engine, EE only
(http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/elasticsearch/es-overview.html)
You must use PHP 7
You may use MariaDB even if it is not supported by Magento 2.
You must use CSS minification and JS minification and JS bundling (which works only on production mode).
Check the official Magento 2 documentation in order to set up this production configuration.
A bit late here but i think the answer while working on vagrant / docker is mostly that the I/O of files is terribly slow.
My solution was simply do disable the whole shared folder and replace it with a remote project (sftp connection) in PhpStorm. All files are so stored within the virtual machine and don't have to be synced everytime the page needs a reload.
The main benefit of course is, that it is amazingly fast while working on developer mode.
But also there are some minor problems while working with this setup:
You can't run commands straight from your terminal. You have to ssh into your vagrant for running magento2 cli commands.
After running composer updates you may have to download the whole folder again, because in PhpStorm remote changes are not downloaded automatically.
I made this vagrant which allow you to customize mount options and has great performance:
nfs mount or regular mount
directory mount /var/www/magento/app or whole project /var/www/magento
https://github.com/zepgram/magento2-fast-vm
You can work on a fast magento installation and adapt parameters depending on your work practice and your host machine perf.
For example, if your host machine doesn't support NFS option and has bad performance you can mount only app directory which is enough for development.
#Henry's Cat is right. Non linux os + Magento2 = disaster.
If you are not working hard with xmls you can turn on magento cache
bin/magento cache:enable
and use bin/magento cache:clean when you modify something in theses files
or better just disable certain cache types bin/magento cache:disable db_ddl full_page . #Igor Sydorenko is absolutely right, disabling css js merging/minifiying will IMPROVE A LOT developer mode performance.
In order to give flexibility to developers, Magento generates a lot of files. If it runs in production mode, the slowest part is the disk read which can be optimized.
But while running Magento 2 in developer mode, disk read and write operations make it too slow.
I was also experiencing the same while developing Magento 2 applications. My first suggestion is to move to SSD. However, it is not possible for every everyone every time.
It was also not possible for me to install SSD in my high-end laptop with lot of RAM and CPU power.
I found a work around which made my development considerably fast in localhost using Redis cache. Cache cleaning and warming became extremely fast which reduced my waiting time drastically to see the changes. Here is the full article to use Redis cache in localhost with Magento 2.
Ok so i have been working with Magento 2.2.7 from approx 6-8 months . so there are some notes you should consider :
1. use SSD Hard Disk (if possible)
2. configure grunt in magento. it will surely help to make frontend devlopment in magento fast. because grunt helps to compile less file without need of executing s:s:d command.
grunt with magento
3. do not enable xdebug.
4. disable cache only if you are reloading page too many times in a row.
I tried many machines and many configuration like:
Windows 10 - vagrant machine debian
Windows 10 - vagrant machine debian - docker
Windows 10 - vagrant machine ubuntu - docker
Windows 10 - vagrant machine ubuntu
The problem of bitnami machine : not realy easy to be configured for Xdebug
In my experiance the Best one is a vagrant machine for those who want to work on Windows:
https://app.vagrantup.com/certiprosolutions
So use this config on your Vagrant file:
config.vm.box = "certiprosolutions/ubuntu-lnmp"
config.vm.box_check_update = false
# box modifications, including memory limits and box name.
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.name = "Magento 2.3.3 ubuntu ngnix"
vb.memory = 8240
vb.cpus = 2
#vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "disconnected" ]
end
The advantages:
you can switch between many configuration of PHP
(5.6,7.0,7.1,7.2,7.3)
work on many version of Magento in the same environment
A little note. to make xdebug work you should change the configuration of xdebug to that:
[XDEBUG]
zend_extension=xdebug.so
xdebug.default_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1
xdebug.remote_autostart = true
xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp
xdebug.remote_port = 9001
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_log="/tmp/xdebug72.log"
;xdebug.max_nesting_level = 1000
I have a very basic Asus tablet (VivoTab) I just upgraded to Windows 10. I want to run an offline demo on it of my website, so my thought process is to install WAMP server and go from there. I've done it on my PC, but as you can imagine its a little different with a Tablet, and I can't seem to find much online information on the topic.
If there is a 'better' way to go about this, not using WAMP, or if someone has done this there help would be much appreciated!!
Preferably I don't want to jailbreak, but if its necessary I don't mind.
Thanks everyone! After playing with some configs with wamp it worked. Had to uninstall it couple times, The tablet didn't play nicely with 3.0 but worked with 2.5. The difficulty was installing the correct MSVCR. For 2.5 Apache runs on MSVCR 2010 for 32bit but for some reason you need 2008 revision installed as well. Also had to block IIS it runs on port 80 as wel
First time using Wordpress, I always used Drupal. I have installed WP on several VPS from several vendors. One with FreeBSD 10.1, 3 with Centos 7. All using MySQL and PHP 5.4 or PHP 5.6.
I'm using Xcache and mod_deflate. On the same VPS PHP apps like Drupal and ownCloud are running fine and responding very fast (<400ms), no matter how many times you load the page.
My problem with Wordpress is that the first time you load the website on a PC it takes about 20-30 seconds to load. After this it loads under 200ms. I'm using the default theme and no plugins, since I first want to solve the slowness.
IMO plugins like "WP Super Cache" won't help since it's a clean install on a clean VPS. Without content, without plugins etc.
I have tried many things which doesn't work. Directly accessing the VPS by IP doesn't change anything.
Check the page speed from: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
To be sure its not your connection / computer
If its still that slow:
Try using an Ubuntu 14.04, then install Sentora as your host panel.
From there do all the necessary configurations (edit DNS records at your registrar etc)
Then install wordpress with remote.softaculous.com, then you should be good to go.
I rent Windows 2008 64 R2 on a shared hosting environment with the following specs:
Intel XEON E5520 # 2.27GHZ
2 GB RAM
IIS 7.5
PHP v5.4
MySQL 5.5.27
FastCGI
Normally, I develop for .NET, and my websites are working great with fast rendering times.
However, I have a couple of Wordpress sites as well, and they are rather slow compared to the .NET websites. Today, I decided to investigate this. I just installed a fresh WordPress 3.8 copy using WPI (Web Platform Installer).
The website takes about 1.1 seconds to render (so it takes 1.1 seconds before any response is returned from my web server), which is, in my opinion, really slow.
I didn't install PHP/MySQL on the server myself, but I think that the best well known practices are in place, at least FastCGI is installed.
But still, I believe that Wordpress should be performing much better, even on a WIMP environment.
So, my questions are:
Should I expect more performance with this setup on the given environment (no additional optimizations such as caching), or is 1.1 seconds of rendering time normal?
And if so, any ideas on what's going on?
Btw, I know that I can speedup Wordpress somewhat by using plugins like W3TC.
Today, I finally was able to fix my slow loading problem; until now, my Wordpress sites where still loading slowly.
By chance, I stumbled upon this article:
http://www.customfitonline.com/news/2013/6/20/solve-wordpress-on-windows-server-problems/
I was like, let's try that "Slow Page Loading" tip, change localhost to 127.0.0.1 in wp_config.php:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
To
define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1');
Sure enough, this setting makes a HUGE difference in page loading!