Hi @clay thanks for your reply! I love Local, it’s amazing, and I can’t wait for a premium version!
cURL is being used by BackupBuddy plugin, which allows you to pull/push the database between the local and live environment.
All is good when I push from local to live, but when I pull from live to local, the plugin throws these errors:
This is related to HTTP Loopbacks:
Error: Error #9038: Loopback test error: `cURL error 7: Failed to connect to deleteme.test port 443: Connection refused`. URL: `https://deleteme.test/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=itbub_http_loop_back_test&serial=iphgm0h1zs76yau`. If you need to contact your web host, tell them that when PHP tries to connect back to the site at the URL `https://deleteme.test/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=itbub_http_loop_back_test&serial=iphgm0h1zs76yau` via curl (or other fallback connection method built into WordPress) that it gets the error `cURL error 7: Failed to connect to deleteme.test port 443: Connection refused`. This means that WordPress' built-in simulated cron system cannot function properly, breaking some WordPress features & subsequently some plugins. There may be a problem with the server configuration (eg local DNS problems, mod_security, etc) preventing connections from working properly.
And this other one related to wp-cron.php Loopbacks:
Active wp-cron.php loopback test failure: `cURL error 7: Failed to connect to deleteme.test port 443: Connection refused`. URL: `https://deleteme.test/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1521709578.9165461063385009765625`. If you need to contact your web host, tell them that when PHP tries to connect back to the site at the URL `https://deleteme.test/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1521709578.9165461063385009765625` via curl (or other fallback connection method built into WordPress) that it gets the error `cURL error 7: Failed to connect to deleteme.test port 443: Connection refused`. This means that WordPress' built-in simulated cron system cannot function properly, breaking some WordPress features & subsequently some plugins. There may be a problem with the server configuration (eg local DNS problems, mod_security, etc) preventing connections from working properly.
These two errors both go away if I stop using SSL (replace https:// with http:// in WP settings)
Hope this helps you debugging the issue!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I’m running Local on a Windows 10 machine with all the latest updates installed, no 3d party firewalls or antivirus, but I’m indeed using Windows Defender (could that be the issue?)
Thanks and have a nice day,
Alessandro