i am literary loosing my mind, been unable to start my site. due to this “Oh-Uh! Unable to start site” Screenshot by Lightshot first 1. i am running the app on my guest user window after it failed to open on my admin window. i learnt that here and it worked. i am using windows 10 pro i have uninst…

BOOM! It works bro, thanks so much. The problem is largely from my PC, i noticed that when i off the site, and tries to start it. it won’t start but when i restart my pc and opens the app, starts site, it works. Thanks a lot. But my challenge now is importing my sites. i get this error message when…

Hi @czarpacciotti ! We have a Windows Troubleshooting guide below that goes over some common items worth checking. For example, ensure you’re running Local as an administrator, that you don’t have any security blockers, and that Local has access to update your Hosts file. [image] Troublesh…

Is this a personal device? Or one issued by an employer with some stricter permissions? What about the other settings mentioned such as security and hosts file updates?

:smiley: its crazy right?…its my personal PC. I have checked every other options, no luck. how do i send the log file?

For us to be able to troubleshoot thoroughly, please click the Download Local Logs button from the Support tab in Local. This will generate a zip archive that contains the Local log along with some other diagnostic information to help quickly zero in on any issues that Local is encountering. Instru…

it just started working now, all sites working. still not as admin but the guest window. thanks for your time. someone advised here to be stopping sites before exiting the app or shutting down PC. i guess i will stick to that, hope it helps. thanks for your time.

Glad to hear that @czarpacciotti ! Another trick that can help sometimes is opening the Windows Task Manager and killing any MySQL entries that appear. After that, you can try restarting the site. [windowstaskmanager]

local-logs.zip (489.1 KB) Hello Nick, i have been managing this issue ever since my last post. cos after some tries, the site will start. The error message keeps showing but it later starts working at some point. My laptop recently updated to windows 11. now my local wp sites won’t start. i have cr…

Hey @czarpacciotti ! Not sure if you saw my comment above, but one thing you can try is opening the Windows Task Manager and killing any MySQL entries that appear. After that, you can try restarting the site. [windowstaskmanager] If you’re still having trouble, try creating a new, blank site in Lo…

ok thanks, but i have been doing the task master stuff, i will give the second option a try. hope it helps.

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i am unable to run local as administrator on my system, i have been using it like that on the guest window. it opens as a guest but not as administrator

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