",
[...]
}
],
[...]
```
1. Under the same site, there is another entry with key `hostFile` with `"status": "error"` and some error message. Remove the error message and replace `"error"` with `"running"`:
```auto
[...]
"hostFile": {
"status": "running"
},
[...]
```
1. Now you should be able to start DevKinsta again with no errors and the site up and running!
Hope this helps. Don’t now, why they didn’t want us to know, how we could achieve this step manually…? `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`
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### Author:  [@claumigue](https://community.kinsta.com/u/claumigue)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/26 "2021-04-21T20:09:09Z")
Hope they solve it soon, in the meantime I will stick with Local by Flywheel until they fix this problem, I would love to use DevKinsta without having to manually update the hosts file.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/27 "2021-04-21T20:18:32Z")
Hi @claumigue ! Welcome to DevKinsta. I’m sorry for the trouble. You’re right that you shouldn’t have to manually edit the host file and by default it does not. I understand every system is different though and we’re looking at all possibilities to solve this from occurring.
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### Author:  [@Didou\_Schol](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Didou_Schol)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/28 "2021-05-06T18:12:04Z")
I’ve created 8 sites successfully on local, but the last 2 sites (total of sites is now 10) both seemed to suffer from this problem. @rafu 's fix however quickly sets me on my way again, works great.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the fix.
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### Author:  [@Didou\_Schol](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Didou_Schol)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/29 "2021-05-22T14:22:05Z")
@rafu workaround works for me for creating new websites. I however noticed that removing sites also wasn’t working for me (not related to workaround). I noticed that the batch file that executes had a lot of garbage dns entries so I looked into my hosts file, which is located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.
It had multiple (3 in total) entries that looked like this:
```
# Added by Docker Desktop
192.168.2.26 host.docker.internal
192.168.2.26 gateway.docker.internal
# To allow the same kube context to work on the host and the container:
127.0.0.1 kubernetes.docker.internal
# End of section
```
I removed 2 of them and made sure that the IP actually matched the one from my network card. I was now able to succesfully remove the websites that I didn’t need anymore, and create a new website without having to go through the workaround.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/30 "2021-07-09T16:35:22Z")
With the release of DevKinsta 2.0, could you tell us if you’re still having this issue? You can download DevKinsta 2.0+ here. Thank you and apologies for the trouble here.
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### Author:  [@Evgen\_Savchenko](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Evgen_Savchenko)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/31 "2021-07-12T07:29:12Z")
Thank you very much, Michael, for your answer. Since then, as I could not find a solution to the problem with installing a new site on DevKinsta, I no longer used this program. After your new answer, I downloaded the new version and installed it. And I was pleasantly surprised that the new site was installed without any problems from the first try! Thank you for your work and the work of the support service! At a high level!
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### Author:  [@LindsayB](https://community.kinsta.com/u/LindsayB)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/32 "2021-07-21T17:22:28Z")
**Q: Date/Time this occurred (Provide your time zone also)**
**A:** 7/21/21 10:06AM PST
**Q: DevKinsta Version**
\*\*A:\*\*2.0
**Q: OS Version**
**A:** Windows 10Pro 19043.1110
**Q: Docker Desktop Version**
**A:** 3.5.2
**Q: Were any error codes or messages observed? If so, what were they?**
**A:** DK0022 - Host file update failed
**Q: Detailed Description of the Problem**
**A:** When I create a new site it stops at 75% with a DK0022 error code saying “Host file update failed” When I try to delete the site it says " you didn’t grant permission for site deletion" I am running as administrator.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/33 "2021-07-21T20:17:18Z")
Hey @LindsayB . This may be another case of permissions as the host file may be locked. Have anything that might be blocking this operation from completing?
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### Author:  [@LindsayB](https://community.kinsta.com/u/LindsayB)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/34 "2021-07-21T20:41:44Z")
Hi @michael . I suppose it could be antivirus protection, how would I access the correct file to disable this? I have tried to google it but can’t find anything that I could follow. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/35 "2021-07-22T14:20:12Z")
@LindsayB The issue is that there’s a protection enabled somewhere against this file. DevKinsta needs to be able to edit the host file. As an example, here’s [how to edit the host file manually](https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/edit-hosts-file/#edit-hosts-file-windows) although DevKinsta itself still needs to be able to gain access to edit the file. If you’re able to disable the antivirus to test that, that might be a good first step.
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### Author:  [@LindsayB](https://community.kinsta.com/u/LindsayB)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/36 "2021-07-23T21:15:20Z")
@michael I disabled antivirus and firewall but still got the same error. I followed the steps in editing the host file manually but when opening the file etc it is empty.
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/37 "2021-07-26T14:12:32Z")
@LindsayB We’ll take a look at making this step easier. At the moment there’s something on your machine that’s blocking DevKinsta from being able to write to the host file 😞
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/38 "2021-10-11T15:24:17Z")
With the release of [DevKinsta 2.2.0](https://kinsta.com/devkinsta/), this should now be resolved. Please let us know if you still experience this issue by creating a new [bug report](https://community.kinsta.com/c/bug-reports/9). Thanks again for using DevKinsta!
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/blocked-at-updating-host-file-75/338/39 "2021-10-11T15:24:19Z")
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