Localhost won’t connect but Dashboard works

  • Resolved Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)


    6 years ago

    Hey Cory,

    Hope you are doing well. Here’s a strange one. I created a Duplicator database only backup and then did the two-part install on my local host WAMP64. The install seemed to go fine and I can login to the Dashboard, but when I launch the homepage it says:

    This site can’t be reached
    localhost refused to connect.

    MY SYSTEM:

    • Duplicator Free
    • Windows 10
    • WAMPServer64

    This is what I tried already, all to no avail:

    • Removed all plugins.
    • Increased Apache httpd.conf ThreadStackSize to 99,999,999 (from 888,8888) and restarted my WAMP64 server.
    • Toggled permalinks from “post name” to “post id”.
    • Launched in Chrome incognito window.

    But, nothing worked. Then I basically gave up. I ran Ccleaner while I was gone for about a half hour or so. When I came back everything worked.

    Any idea why that would be? The only thing I can think of is some kind of caching issue. But, didn’t me running in incognito mode account for that? I thought incognito stops caching?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter Eric Hepperle

    (@codeslayer2010)

    I think I may have figured it out. It looks like the culprit is that my localhost — for some reason — was automatically appending the “https://” secure protocol onto my localhost url, so the path to my restored site looked like this:

    https://localhost/in-progress/my-wp-site/

    But, that doesn’t work with localhost. The gotcha is, in Chrome at least, you can’t see that it is appending the secure HTTP protocol because it is hidden in the address bar. I’m dropping this here in case anyone else has this problem and can benefit from learning about this gotcha.

    Cory Lamle

    (@corylamleorg)

    Hey Eric,

    Thanks for the info and feedback! Maybe we can add an icon to the installer that helps to inform users about SSL.

    Cheers~

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