Never ending 404 Site Not Found

[WeeboDev]

Hi everyone,

I recently came across this awesome software and decided to give it ago. So far it has been great using it except for one single issue – the title.

I created my first website, second and third. Everything is fine. On the 4th website, I started getting 404 Site Not Found every time I create a website. Now I did my homework and searched the forums and the internet and everything leads to one thing that resolves this – restarting my computer.

Honestly, I did it the first few times but it is getting rather annoying having to do that EVERY SINGLE time I have to create a website. Specially when it seems to be reported from years ago and it keeps resurfacing.

So, is there a way to fix this permanently?

I know you will ask for the log, but I can’t just upload that here with data the Router’s Log includes. It has a lot of sensitive data that can be easily misused.

[ben.turner]

Hey @WeeboDev, Welcome to the Local Community Forums!

It’s hard to say why there’s an issue without seeing the actual Local Log. Local does a pretty good job of redacting sensitive things, but if you don’t want to share that log with the forums, I’d recommend taking a look at the Local Log to see what sorts of errors are being reported in it. Here’s a topic in the Forums that outlines how to get that log for you to review:

• How do I retrieve Local’s Log?

One thing I’m curious about – are all of these sites running at the same time? Once the computer is restarted, are you still able to start each site, or do you have to re-create the sites again after restarting?

[WeeboDev]

Oh, interesting. I accessed the wrong logs – apologies. The ones I saw did have my computer’s username, name of projects I have, their domains, etc… so I felt it was really wrong to share these things. But apparently I misclicked on the log file.

I actually found a fix that doesn’t require restarting (not ideal but better than nothing).

@ben.turner

One thing I’m curious about – are all of these sites running at the same time? Once the computer is restarted, are you still able to start each site, or do you have to re-create the sites again after restarting?

No. Each one alone. None of them overlap being active or running.

The fix I found (or maybe the issue, I don’t know) is that nginx server running doesn’t get shutdown if you close Local or have ALL your sites stopped. It will continue running. So when I relaunch Local after a break and start working again, that previous instance of nginx server is still running. Which is the issue. If I open my Task Manager, kill the server + kill another process “Windows Host Process (Rundll32)” and then start my website, it works like a charm and that 404 error never surfaces again.

[ben.turner]

Ahh yeah, that’s likely the Router Log, which is the log that the NGINX router uses to point the browser to the actual WordPress site, and it would likely have a bit more info contained within it.

Your description of the workaround does make sense – if the NGINX process isn’t restarted, or is prevented from stopping/starting, then that could cause issues when the configuration changes (which is what happens when creating a new site).