[michaelxxxParticipant]

Hi,

I installed WordPress & X Theme with XAMPP on my local Computer.

Now I tried the poduct validation and get the error “Could not establish connection.”
For generating the API Key I used for the URL my local IP 127.0.0.1

I found your topic:

localhosts do not work for validating your theme you will need to create a vhost (virtual host) on your computer and validate that vhost domain. You can find an article explaining everything in detail here: http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/

But the URL from sawmac.com is not working.
So what to do now?

[RupokMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in! Note that 127.0.0.1 is just the alias of localhost. You can try validating http://localhost. Also the virtual host should work. Would you please clarify what error you got?

However it’s better if you can use a staging domain on your server.

Thanks

[michaelxxxParticipant]

validating http://localhost is not working

I got the following error:
Could not establish connection. Please ensure your firewall is not blocking requests to theme.co

[michaelxxxParticipant]

I want to have my virtual host under gon/

I tried to do the following:

In hosts.txt I added the following 2 domains
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 gon

And in the httpd-vhosts.conf fle I added the following code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
    ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/gon"
    ServerName gon
    <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/gon">
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I can open the adress localhost at the browser. It redirects to http://localhost/xampp/

But I can´t open gon/ in the browser. When I try it opens google with the searchstring gon and not my index.html under the folder C:/xampp/htdocs/gon

What did I do wrong?

[FriechModerator]

Hi There,

Please follow the solution provided here.

Also open the php.ini file on \xampp\php\ directory and make sure the php_curl.dll is enabled and allow_url_fopen is on.

Check also your firewall if its not blocking the XAMPP.

Hope it helps, Cheers!

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