What issue or error are you experiencing? After installation when creating a new site, I get the error “Unable to update the hosts file make sure it’s not locked by antivirus” no matter what I do. I have followed all directions and then some in other threads with the same or similar errors. I do n…

If you are encountering the Cannot Edit Hosts File error and do not receive a prompt asking to allow “Windows Command Processor” to make changes to your device such as in the following image, before the error happens, here is a solution to try. [Command] Check If Powershell PATH Variable Exists Fo…

Hi @Graywaren After doing everything else above did you try a full uninstall and resinstall?

@Nick-B Yes, as I listed, I tried that multiple times. I followed all instructions listed on the full uninstall guide each time.

I also get this notification, though no popup to grant privileges comes with it [Notification]

I’ve gone through the entire process multiple times again. I’m still getting cannot update hosts file etc. From what I can tell from all this, and comparing it to the other computer, Local is failing to use CMD to edit the hosts file. The other computer generated the UAC prompt to grant cmd permissi…

Hey @Graywaren – I’ve always found this part of Windows to be confusing. One thing to double check, when you see that notification show up in the lower right corner of the screen, what happens when you click it? Does that show the pop-up window with the prompt?

Nope, nothing happens, the notification just disappears if I click it. The error message pops up simultaneously with that notification as well, there’s no delay between the two. I tried installing Local 7 something just to see if an older version would work, and it does the same thing. I can try an…

@ben.turner Any updates? Any help? Any recommendations for another product to try since yours doesn’t work? I’ve got to get my live site taken down, and I was really hoping to use local because your interface made it easy, rather than fiddling about with xampp, but it’s been 10 days…

Hey @Graywaren – this is definitely an odd situation. The error in the error logs doesn’t give us much to go by and we haven’t been able to replicate on our end. As you say, the issue seems specific to this machine since things appear to work on other systems. I don’t have many ideas, but a couple…

@ben.turner It’s definitely the machine as a whole, though judging by the forums, there do appear to be other machines having the same issue. The thread referenced above your first reply seems likely another case of it, then the one I linked to that was able to solve it by removing associations wit…

Unable to update host file error - have tried all solutions in forum, UAC prompt for cmd failing?

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Graywaren March 4, 2024, 4:32pm 6

@Nick-B Any help at all?

Local is requesting administrative privileges to modify yout /etc/hosts files

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Unable to update host file error - have tried all solutions in forum, UAC prompt for cmd failing?

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