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I have a localhost website bm.ourdomain.local on our Mac machine (running AMPPS).

It has an entry in /etc/hosts:

<local IP> bm.ourdomain.local

It has an entry in /Applications/AMPPS/Apache/conf/extra/vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local"
    ServerName bm.ourdomain.local
    ServerAlias bm.ourdomain.local
    ErrorLog "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local/error_log"
    CustomLog "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local/access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

When I load bm.ourdomain.local in Chrome, nothing happens, the loading icon just spins.

If I turn on debug, debug.log doesn't get created.

If I rename plugins to plugins.temp, nothing changes, same with themes to themes.temp.

There is Wordfence installed, and I have confirmed .htaccess and .user.ini contain the correct path to wordfence-waf.php.

There is no error_log.

If I clear the browser cache of files and cookies, nothing changes.

Other websites on the local server run fine, on vhosts.

Help appreciated.

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I have a localhost website bm.ourdomain.local on our Mac machine (running AMPPS).

It has an entry in /etc/hosts:

<local IP> bm.ourdomain.local

It has an entry in /Applications/AMPPS/Apache/conf/extra/vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local"
    ServerName bm.ourdomain.local
    ServerAlias bm.ourdomain.local
    ErrorLog "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local/error_log"
    CustomLog "/Applications/AMPPS/www/bm.ourdomain.local/access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

When I load bm.ourdomain.local in Chrome, nothing happens, the loading icon just spins.

If I turn on debug, debug.log doesn't get created.

If I rename plugins to plugins.temp, nothing changes, same with themes to themes.temp.

There is Wordfence installed, and I have confirmed .htaccess and .user.ini contain the correct path to wordfence-waf.php.

There is no error_log.

If I clear the browser cache of files and cookies, nothing changes.

Other websites on the local server run fine, on vhosts.

Help appreciated.

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Share Improve this question asked Dec 10, 2018 at 2:27 InsightInsight 11711 silver badge1414 bronze badges 3

• If your working on WordPress local host try this one, DesktopServer. serverpress – Abishekh Kc Commented Dec 10, 2018 at 4:17
• Are the file permissions set correctly, so that the webserver can read these files? What do you mean by "loading icon spins"? – kero Commented Dec 12, 2018 at 11:11
• Permissions are fine thanks @kero. When Chrome loads a page there is a loading icon. – Insight Commented Dec 14, 2018 at 2:21

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Restarting the AMPPS server resolved this issue.

Every day since the problem the website has loaded fine since, so it looks like the problem was isolated to one occurrence.