How to enable Loopback Connection support

[Nick-B]

Hi @egrissom

Are you using Apache as your server type?

It looks like another user created a post here with a lot more detail that might be helpful in troubleshooting:

Ongoing loopback challenge

Summary We frequently see reports here in the Local forum and elsewhere about timeouts, curl issues, loopback errors, etc. What’s happening is that requests are queued, but only executed on exit of the calling code. So errors are reported from WP Site Health, wp-cron, WooCommerce, outbound REST queries, etc… These common loopback issues seem related to PHP FPM on Windows. This inquiry is about getting a firm understanding of the problem, even if we don’t have a solution yet - though once we ha…