Title: HTTP 504 Error
Last modified: August 17, 2023

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# HTTP 504 Error

 *  Resolved [Juwaan Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/)
 * (@geekvibesnation)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/)
 * I am getting this error when trying to use Bulk Optimization
 * 10:21:30 – An error occurred while connecting to the REST API. Please, try again.
   
   404 – ([https://geekvibesnation.com/wp-json/webp-converter/v1/paths](https://geekvibesnation.com/wp-json/webp-converter/v1/paths))
 * HTTP Error 504 (60.081s): “<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \”-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN\”
   >\n<html><head>\n<title>504 Gateway Timeout</title>\n</head><body>\n<h1>Gateway
   Timeout</h1>\n<p>The gateway did not receive a timely response\nfrom the upstream
   server or application.</p>\n<p>Additionally, a 504 Gateway Timeout\nerror was
   encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>\n
   </body></html>\n”

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 *  Thread Starter [Juwaan Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/)
 * (@geekvibesnation)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/#post-16981292)
 * Issue has been resolved
 *  Plugin Author [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * (@mateuszgbiorczyk)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/#post-16981295)
 * Hi [@geekvibesnation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/),
 * Thank you for the confirmation. What was the source of the problem?
 * Best,
    Mateusz
 *  Thread Starter [Juwaan Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/)
 * (@geekvibesnation)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/#post-16981407)
 * It was a proxytimout that is apparently a known issue with cPanel. Raised the
   timeout from 300 to 1200.
 *  Plugin Author [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * (@mateuszgbiorczyk)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/#post-16981414)
 * [@geekvibesnation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekvibesnation/) Thank
   you for your answer!

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## Tags

 * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/)
 * [504 Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/504-error/)
 * [bulk optimization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bulk-optimization/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-504-error/#post-16981414)
 * Status: resolved