Unable to access Wordpress admin facility on MAMP localhost.
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:57 am
I hope someone can help me with this, i cannot figure it out. I've got a MAMP installation (version 6.3) using Apache running on my Mac, i've got a client's Wordpress website installed on it and it works just fine. However, when i try to access the localhost's Wordpress admin facility, i get the following message:
"This site can't provide a secure connection.
localhost sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR"
I am not at all familiar with "SSL" but was under the impression that localhost could not use SSL directly. I am unsure how to proceed. There are no errors in any wordpress debug logs or in the Apache logs to help me narrow this down. I've done extensive googling of this and a couple of suggestions have popped up (and :
1. Add the following line to the wp-config.php file:
define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, false);
I tried this and it does not work.
2. This post details a two-step process where data is inserted into the “wp_options” table and then create an SSL certificate. The problem with this solution is that my database does not have a “wp_options” table in it, neither in my test version of the site on my localhost nor in my client’s production site. The “wp_options” table simply doesn’t seem to exist. Does anybody know what schema you would find it in? I’m not sure if that’s a problem or not. The second step says to "install a certificate on localhost". I have no idea how to do that and haven't tried, due to not being able to find the "wp_options" table. If anyone can point me to a how-to on that, i would appreciate that.
Here’s the link to that post:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/que ... -localhost
Hopefully, someone here has run across this issue and can refer me to some documentation that i can follow to get there. I can't install plugins in my site without it.
thank you!
"This site can't provide a secure connection.
localhost sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR"
I am not at all familiar with "SSL" but was under the impression that localhost could not use SSL directly. I am unsure how to proceed. There are no errors in any wordpress debug logs or in the Apache logs to help me narrow this down. I've done extensive googling of this and a couple of suggestions have popped up (and :
1. Add the following line to the wp-config.php file:
define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, false);
I tried this and it does not work.
2. This post details a two-step process where data is inserted into the “wp_options” table and then create an SSL certificate. The problem with this solution is that my database does not have a “wp_options” table in it, neither in my test version of the site on my localhost nor in my client’s production site. The “wp_options” table simply doesn’t seem to exist. Does anybody know what schema you would find it in? I’m not sure if that’s a problem or not. The second step says to "install a certificate on localhost". I have no idea how to do that and haven't tried, due to not being able to find the "wp_options" table. If anyone can point me to a how-to on that, i would appreciate that.
Here’s the link to that post:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/que ... -localhost
Hopefully, someone here has run across this issue and can refer me to some documentation that i can follow to get there. I can't install plugins in my site without it.
thank you!