WordPress Multisite Nginx wp-signup.php problems

  • Currently having a strange problem where wp-signups.php blog creation doesn’t always complete and times out, so a blog is not always created. I’m running Nginx + PHP-FPM + Varnish on Ubuntu over 2 servers. This is becoming frustrating as the rest of my Multisite installation is running extremely quickly.

    My initial thoughts were my Nginx/FastCGI/MySQL buffers were too high or too low, but I’ve tried hundreds of different values with no change. I also thought it might be a posting problem.

    Currently hosting 2200 blogs and 8500 users, but I’m not sure it’s a DB issue as I have created a couple of other installations on the same servers and they are having the same issue. If you restart Nginx and PHP-FPM it works for about 10 minutes and then it slows down to a crawl when creating a new blog. I’ve not tried creating new users through wp-signup.php as I have a custom front end for user creation.

    I’ve enabled PHP/Nginx/MySQL slow logs but it doesn’t give me any information on where it is holding up. I also don’t want to have to increase my timeouts over 60 seconds due to the size of the installation and other sites I host.

    Any words of wisdom on this would be greatly appreciated, so I can stop pulling my hair out.

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  • Thread Starter Ed

    (@coopeh)

    Anyone who is having this issue, check you are not using suhosin. If you are you need to extend your:

    suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000
    suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000

    You may also see large menus not saving too if you are having the wp-signup.php issue.

    Also in Varnish to change timeout you can use the below in your backend:

    .connect_timeout = 600s;
    .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
    .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;

    Will follow this up again if it does not fix my problem.

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