Warning! This site’s WordPress URL settings do not match the host set in Local

[Gardener]

What issue or error are you experiencing?

Hello everyone,
I get this message
Warning! This site’s WordPress URL settings do not match the host set in Local and i cant open the site.
Can enyone help?
Thanks!

What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc

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System Details

• Local Version: 7.1.2+6410

• Operating System (OS) and OS version:
  Intel(R) Core™ i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz
  WINDOWS 11 X64

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Local Logs

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[Nick-B]

Hi @Gardener!

This might help:

This site WordPress URL settings do not match host set in local

What that message is saying is that Local thinks the URL for the site should be one thing, but for whatever reason, the URL within the database is another value. There could be a lot of underlying reasons for this, but this is going to be tricky to diagnose if you are unsure what the original domain was. You could try guessing what the original domain was by looking at the path: [image] Basically, Local will convert the site’s name so that: Spaces are transformed to dashes special charact…

[Gardener]

I tried that and i think that the url is correct.
it starts to load and suddenly stops.

[Nick-B]

In that same thread above Ben mentioned restoring the site as another troubleshooting step. You could give that a try and then see if it starts working again.

Backup a Local Site

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