jeffsun22

I take all that back Swap is not enabled…. BTW max mem limit in PHP.ini is 128MB so it works I just dont know why.

Ok wanted to add one more thing. The only thing that I could think of that made this work is the following:

1. Before my post I made the swap file
2. After my post I shutdown the instance and gave up
3. After your responses I restarted the instance

Now I am thinking that it COULD be a memory issue and stupid me forgot to reboot the instance and get the swap to run….. Lesson learned.

I resolved my issue by dropping the DB and basically re installing wordpress from scratch and resetting all permissions…. (I really dont know why this worked) I have a feeling this is probably not applicable to you… Perhaps talk to your host, They have a way to check the memory usage.

Ok…. So I am not sure what I did to fix this. But here it is:

1. Manually Dropped the DB
2. Deleted the 3.9 WP files in /var/www/html
3. Put in the 3.9 WP files back in /var/www/html
4. Made the DB again.
5. Put back in the old wp-config.php and .htacess
6. Reset all permissions

Now it works…. Its still a micro instance…. I dont get it… I guess you can close out this topic….

If you are using linux shell, u can try :

mysql -u [your database username] -p

Once you login it gives you the current mysql version…. I started a thread similar to yours and someone suggested it was a memory issue, do you know what sort of hardware configuration its running on?

Hello,

Thank you for your response. I will try to do this as soon as possible. Please note, I realize these micro instances are not real ‘performers’ So I had it setup with a 1GB swapfile. I was previously running a drupal site on a micro instance and I tried upping the memory limit to no avail (drupal kept crashing so eventually I upgraded to a small instance). However having said all this my other WP site (v3.8.3) is running on an almost identical setup (t1micro with 1GB swap) and it has some fancier plugins and themes installed – its slow but its working….. unlike 3.9…

Never the less, I will try this and report back.

Thank you.

Having same problem here, out of curiosity what is your setup? Linux? What version of MySQL?