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Posted by cheryl tapp
cheryl tapp
Courses Plus Student 1,172 Points

Trying to set up local host, comes up with err connection refused

Using wp trying to set up local host, brings up on index page the localwp.com but comes up with error and wont open??? when you inspect it comes up with 3 error codes, err_connection_refused..

Using windows

1 Answer

Giuseppe Tiberi
Giuseppe Tiberi
1,239 Points
Giuseppe Tiberi
Giuseppe Tiberi
1,239 Points

Hi cheryl tapp,

by the error you got ( err_connection_refused ) seems that you didn't insert properly the database data:

db name; db username; db user password; db host.

And please be sure that your local server is running without any problems.

Did you follow all the installation steps?