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Installing WordPress 5 on ZEIT Now with MySQL Hosting

ScaleGrid on February 11, 2019

The ZEIT Now WordPress builder has been officially deprecated, and ZEIT cannot guarantee the performance/reliability of the Now PHP community bui...

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Fabien • May 7 '19 • Edited

Tried to use it using Zeit now free tier but still facing this error :

502: An error occurred with your deployment
Code: NO_STATUS_CODE_FROM_LAMBDA

There is what happens in now logs : Task timed out after 10.01 seconds
Do I need to upgrade my now account to use @now/wordpress ?

Thank you.

Fabien • May 7 '19

Found issue, was due to MySQL whitelisted IPs not allowing lambda's IP.

Andrew Reese • May 16 '19

GOD Thank you. Ill try this tonight, was having the same issue and could not find the fix anywhere.

Milan Felix Šulc • Oct 9 '19

Hi guys. Thanks for the blogpost. I would like to pin here semi-official PHP builder for ZEIT Now.

Repo: github.com/juicyfx/now-php

Community builders: zeit.co/docs/builders/#advanced-us...

Feel free to contact me with any question about PHP on ZEIT Now.

Michael Cornelis • Mar 5 '19 • Edited

Thanks for the explanation, it was quite interesting!

But after completing this tutorial, if bumped into the problem of the uploads.
How do I make de wp-content folder writable ?

ScaleGrid • Mar 6 '19

Hi Michael, I shared your comment with our dev team and this appears to be a ZEIT WordPress configuration related question. We weren't able to find much through Google, but I did find a link to this WP Offload Media plugin where someone asked a similar question on the original Twitter announcement from ZEIT. Hope this helps!