Gatsby: [gatsby-source-wordpress] Possible to use local WordPress installation (ideally running in Local by Flywheel)?

[dustinhorton]

Summary

Relevant information

I've successfully used gatsby-source-wordpress with a remote WordPress install, but am interested in working with a local installation for quicker development. I'm trying out Local by Flywheel, and have Wordpress running at remind.local, but when running with

baseUrl: 'remind.local',

I get:

⠈ source and transform nodesThe request failed with error code "DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT"
No routes to fetch. Ending.

Not sure if this points to an issue/incompat with gatsby-source-wordpress, or with Local.

Environment (if relevant)

  System:
    OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.5
    CPU: x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
    Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 8.6.0 - ~/n/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.7.0 - ~/n/bin/yarn
    npm: 5.3.0 - ~/n/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 67.0.3396.87
    Safari: 11.1.1
  npmPackages:
    gatsby: ^1.9.272 => 1.9.272
    gatsby-image: ^1.0.54 => 1.0.54
    gatsby-link: ^1.6.40 => 1.6.44
    gatsby-plugin-postcss-sass: ^1.0.22 => 1.0.22
    gatsby-plugin-react-helmet: ^2.0.10 => 2.0.11
    gatsby-plugin-react-next: ^1.0.11 => 1.0.11
    gatsby-plugin-resolve-src: 1.1.3 => 1.1.3
    gatsby-source-wordpress: ^2.0.92 => 2.0.92
  npmGlobalPackages:
    gatsby-cli: 1.1.58

[dustinhorton]

Was able to get around this by adding the following to gatsby-node.js:

process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = '0'

Going to leave this open for a bit just to see if others have solved it differently.

The build seems a bit slower on my local, bare installation than my remote installation with a dozen pages & about 50-60 posts which seems really odd.

[m-allanson]

It looks like Local is creating a self-signed SSL certificate which has caused the DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error. Your workaround seems good. If no one else has any suggestions would you like to update the troubleshooting docs for gatsby-source-wordpress to include info about dealing with self-signed SSL certs?

It does seem odd that the build is slower with a local instance of WordPress. I wonder if Local is running WordPress in development mode, and if that results in WordPress taking longer to process requests?

[pieh]

It does seem odd that the build is slower with a local instance of WordPress. I wonder if Local is running WordPress in development mode, and if that results in WordPress taking longer to process requests?

It does by default. When I was using it ~1 year ago there was switch to disable dev/debug mode for a site in Local UI

[dustinhorton]

Will add a note to the docs, and look into that tip about dev mode—thanks.

[dustinhorton]

Did try toggling 'Dev mode' in Local, but didn't discern any difference. Going to continue to try to debug.

[pieh]

Seems like You resolved issue of this not working with https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/6061 . As far as this being slow I think this is something to report / investigate with Local and has nothing to do with gatsby-source-filesystem, so I'll close this issue

[m-allanson]

@dustinhorton did you find any more info about the slower local WordPress builds? It seems someone else has run into that over at https://spectrum.chat/thread/b67dc4e1-9c2b-4c25-8f69-ee33decb3b12

[dustinhorton]

I didn't—had some issues migrating a DB to my local instance so bailed on it for a bit. Will pick it up again shortly if you have any tips on how I can provide some useful info.