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Flywheel is great. By mistake, i configured live domain name in site settings. My blog-site is active but I can’t access it from my computer’s browser. I uninstalled local flywheel, and still the problem persists. I can access the site from other computers.

Please help me to fix this issue.

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Sounds like there might be something left in your hosts file. Are you on Windows?

Create a backup of your hosts file before saving any edits!

By default your hosts file should be in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Use a text editor to open your hosts file. You should see a section for Local settings (## Local by Flywheel - Start ##)

There is probably a line with an IP address and your live website URL causing the error. Delete that line, save and see if that helps.

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Thank you very much. It helped to resolve the problem on windows machine. How about MacOS ?

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@khanjawad

It sounds like @stride_joe got you fixed up with Windows. Modifying the hosts file on macOS is very similar, but in a different location.

Create a backup of your hosts file before saving any edits!

The hosts file exists in this location: /etc/hosts. You’ll need to use the Terminal.app on macOS to locate and modify that file. I found an article for more macOS specific instructions: The Mac Hosts File: How to Modify /etc/hosts in Mac OS X with TextEdit.

There is probably a line with an IP address and your live website URL causing the error. Delete that line, save and see if that helps.

  • Look for what @stride_joe mentioned before that helped you on Windows.

I hope that takes care of it for you. Lets us know if we can help any more

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Thanks for the Mac version @andypeters :+1: