I noticed that my local wordpress admin area suddenly was extremely slow. After lot of trial and error I finally found the culprit: it was Microsoft Essentials apparently scanning every single request.
The Fix: (source)
Op MSE settings -> excluded processes
And add the following (for every version of Apache/MySql you are running):
wamp/bin/appache/apache[version]/bin/httpd.exe wamp/bin/mysql/mysql[version]/bin/mysqld.exe
That’s it
On old machine:
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Goals: – Keep a local WordPress installation under version control (but ignore WordPress core files) – Use WP-Skeleton (wordpress core as submodule in separated folder, content and config files in root) – Use the starter theme Roots 101 – Deploy to a staging and production server (depending on the current Git branch?) – Keep uploads out of version control, sync them separately – Use a good DB migration strategy – If possible: automate repetitive tasks Read More
Source:
http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2009/11/08/how-to-set-up-virtual-hosts-on-your-localhos/
Goal: You have local copy of www.site and you want to access this through the url www. site.dev
Edit your hosts file (administrator rights needed), usually located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
I ran into some problems with files copied from the cygwin command line not having administrator permissions. WAMP for instance didn’t have access to these files, which is not fun.
I took this advice (found here)
As a general rule, if you are going to mix Cygwin and native tools, let windows handle file permissions ("noacl" mount option), and you'll not see such issues again.
Not sure if this is the best solution, but I added the option noacl to etc/fstab, rebooted Windows and it seems to work fine now.
# This is default anyway: none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,noacl,posix=0,user 0 0
First create the folder you want as the web site root folder. Let’s say D:/MyNewTest/
then do: Apache > Alias directories > Add an alias
Next choose an alias: Read More