Hi @Nick-B thanks for your reply. I don’t have any antivirus or firewall applications other than the standard Microsoft Defender which showed the Local application to be allowed to communicate through the windows defender firewall. I tried switching to localhost Router mode and got the “site refused to connect” error in the browser. We are trying to pin down why this happens only in Wordpress 6.3 and doesn’t happen in 6.2. Perhaps Wordpress 6.3 has new changes to its ability to modify files and permissions and it just happens to reach a breaking point within the Local app. I checked the permissions of the hosts file on my computer and it already had all permissions granted before touching it.
Here are some snippets of the various log files that are provided by the Download Local Logs button:
local-lightning-verbose.log
{"thread":"main","class":"SshService","message":"Could not create directory '/home/user1/.ssh'.\r\nWarning: Permanently added 'user1test.ssh.wpengine.net,35.224.26.249' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:14.823Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"SshService","message":"Success: Exported to 'sites/user1/_wpeprivate/autoload.sql'.\ntable_prefix=w9th_","level":"verbose","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:14.823Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Running rsync with following args: '-avzum', '--relative', '-e', 'ssh -o PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=120 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new -o UserKnownHostsFile=\"/cygdrive/c/Users/user1/.ssh/known_hosts\" -i \"%%userDataPath%%\\ssh\\wpe-connect\"', 'local+rsync+user1@user1.ssh.wpengine.net:/sites/user1/./_wpeprivate/autoload.sql', '/cygdrive/c/Users/user1/Local Sites/user1/app/public/'","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:14.825Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Could not create directory '/home/sande/.ssh'.\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:15.016Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/cygdrive/c/Users/user1/.ssh/known_hosts).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:15.261Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"receiving file list ... ","level":"verbose","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:21.875Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"done\n","level":"verbose","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:21.936Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"_wpeprivate/\n","level":"verbose","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:22.214Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"_wpeprivate/autoload.sql\n","level":"verbose","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:22.214Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:39.885Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"WpCliService","message":"This version of Xdebug does not support xdebug_info()","level":"info","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:41.318Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:41.577Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:41.612Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:46.367Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"WpCliService","message":"This version of Xdebug does not support xdebug_info()","level":"info","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:47.931Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:48.080Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:48.086Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:55.267Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"WpCliService","message":"This version of Xdebug does not support xdebug_info()","level":"info","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:56.904Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:57.096Z"}
{"thread":"main","service":{},"serviceBinVersion":{},"message":"Database responded to ping.","level":"debug","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:04:57.100Z"}
local-lightning.log
"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:42:37.052246Z 0 [System] [MY-010229] [Server] Starting crash recovery...","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.178Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:42:37.058265Z 0 [System] [MY-010232] [Server] Crash recovery finished.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.179Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.141481Z 0 [Warning] [MY-010068] [Server] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.179Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.178662Z 0 [System] [MY-010931] [Server] %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+6\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe: ready for connections. Version: '8.0.16' socket: '' port: 10005 MySQL Community Server - GPL.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:42:38.179Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:47:49.991944Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+6\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe (mysqld 8.0.16) starting as process 21624","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.609Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:47:49.993886Z 0 [Warning] [MY-013243] [Server] --character-set-server: The character set UTF8MB3 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please consider using UTF8MB4 instead.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.609Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.557435Z 0 [Warning] [MY-010068] [Server] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.610Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"Process","process":"mysql","level":"warn","message":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.609723Z 0 [System] [MY-010931] [Server] %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+6\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe: ready for connections. Version: '8.0.16' socket: '' port: 10011 MySQL Community Server - GPL.","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:47:54.611Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Could not create directory '/home/user1/.ssh'.\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:48:01.314Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/cygdrive/c/Users/user1/.ssh/known_hosts).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T18:48:01.577Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"SshService","message":"Could not create directory '/home/user1/.ssh'.\r\nWarning: Permanently added 'user1.ssh.wpengine.net,35.224.26.249' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:14.823Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Could not create directory '/home/user1/.ssh'.\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:15.016Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"RsyncService","message":"Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/cygdrive/c/Users/user1/.ssh/known_hosts).\r\n","level":"warn","timestamp":"2023-09-12T19:03:15.261Z"}
router-logs/error.log:
2023/09/12 11:38:09 [alert] 2992#23412: OpenEvent("ngx_master_23136") failed (2: The system cannot find the file specified)
I can also post the zip file of all the logs if there is a secure way to do that without leaking sensitive information. Thank you for your help with this.