Err_connection_reset

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Hi friends,

I recently bought a new MacBook and migrated all my data over. When I powered up Local, it loads up fine with all my sites, but every time I try to pull them up in the browser, I get “This site can’t be reached. The connection was reset. ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” screen.

In the router-log, I see:

“*1 upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream”
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“*1 connect() failed (111: connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.95.1”

More Details:

  • This happens with all sites, including brand new, plain installs ones
  • I can’t load up the frontend, the admin, or MySQL, but I can load mailhog.
  • I’ve tried: rebooting the machine, updating VirtualBox, trying different environment configurations, changing the domain.

My System: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7

Any tips? I’m hoping there’s a fix, rather than having to set up all my sites again.

local-by-flywheel.log (581.7 KB)

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Is anyone here? Any help is wonderful.

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Nothing? Nobody? This doesn’t happen to anyone else?

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What you’re describing sounds like an issue with SSL certificates, which would be hard to zero in on. From the name of the log – local-by-flywheel.log it seems like this is the “Local Classic” version.

Can you try manually installing the latest version of Local:

Note that the newer versions of Local will sometimes be called “Local Lightning” and is technically a completely different application.

Once that newer version is installed, you should be able to create new sites, or import existing ones by following the instructions in this help doc:

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Thank you, Ben.

I’ve updated Local, and I’ve found that I can create a new install and connect to it in the browser. However, when I use Local to connect to WP Engine and pull down a site that I need to work on, I’m back to the ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. There is no information in either the local-lightning.log file or the local router error.log. It seems that as far as Local knows, everything is fine.

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The ERR_CONNECTION_RESET error is really hard to diagnose because it’s so generic of an error.

This help doc is focused on Windows, but does a good job of outlining the problem and gives some good ideas for what might be going on.

A few things I would recommend trying:

  • Does the site load in a different browser? If it does, there’s likely something cached within the original browser that’s causing issues

  • How are you connected to the internet? If you are using a VPN or some other fancy networking setup, it’s possible that something is being cached along the way.

  • As a test, can you try a different local domain? So for example, if you pull a site down that’s been using my-localsite.local can you try pulling to a site that has a randomized url like my-localsite-xyzabc.local.

  • Examine any antivirus or firewall settings and possibly disable them temporarily. It might be that the browser has been able to “find” the Local site, but something like a firewall is preventing the browser from actually “connecting.”

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