This is my first site at Local. When I created a site I got this message My computer is running on windows 10 64bit. The log file of of local’s router 2019/12/28 23:37:29 [emerg] 16340#6528: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (10013: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its acces…

There is some other process running on port 80 on your computer. You must exit that process.

Same issue.Win 10. I have IIS running on port 80. Can Local run on a different port and how?

Hey @elveez – For these kinds of situations where there’s already another app that’s taking either port 80 or 443 (the defaults for HTTP and HTTPS) Local has a different “Router Mode” that can be accessed from “Preferences > Advanced” [image] The “Localhost” option will change the domain so that…

Also, this would be useful to place on Flywheel site help section, an easy fix once you know how to do it.

@ben.turner Worked for me too. Thanks SO much, man!

So I know localhost mode is an option, but isn’t router really just nginx and couldn’t that be configure to listen to 8080 instead of 80? Has anyone tried that?

I have provided solution for this issue here: https://wp-ask.com/question/heads-up-locals-router-is-having-trouble-starting-error-on-local/ I hope this helps.

[image] anmcloud: but isn’t router really just nginx and couldn’t that be configure to listen to 8080 instead of 80? You might be able to hack that into something that works, but I think that would be pretty fragile and ultimately would start breaking down in hard to troubleshoot ways. The ma…

THIS was the problem for me and that solution on that post fixed it! I’ve been trying for many months to use Local (was still using Local Classic ).

"Heads-up! Local's router is having trouble starting" on windows 10

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cevatyildiz December 28, 2020, 5:05pm 15

I found that port 443 was using by vmware-hostd.exe. I removed VMWare and now its working fine.

I need help to install WordPress and remove this host administrative privllages issue

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