matth76

Ah, that was the exact same Youtube video I followed too, which was really good. In the video it mentioned to only uncomment a small number of selected extensions in the php.ini file (as follows):
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Edit Following lines in php.ini file:
cgi.force_redirect = 0
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
fastcgi.impersonate = 1
fastcgi.logging = 0
extension=mysqli
extension=pdo_mysql
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Did you uncomment more extensions than those mentioned in this video?

Thanks again for your help.

Thank you for your help with this. I’ve made the change to the hosts file but unfortunately the two errors are still present in Site Health. I’m wondering if perhaps there is a small delay in the changes taking effect although from what I have read they should be immediate. I have flushed my DNS on my own machine (from where I am accessing the WP Admin page) but the 2 critical errors are still showing.

The only inactive module is: “The optional module, imagick, is not installed, or has been disabled” but this isn’t available in the PHP.ini file for me to un-comment and make active, but I believe I don’t need this and everything else is all active. However extensions_dir was commented out so I added the line: extension_dir = “C:/php/ext” which is where the modules are. However this too has not affected the 2 errors.

Unfortunately I’m still at a loss as to what might be causing this. My only other thought is perhaps the local Windows Defender firewall on the server is blocking something.

Edit: it’s definitely not the local Windows firewall as I have just tested temporarily turning it off completely and refreshed the Site Health page and the two critical cURL timeout errors were still present.