# On my 11th attempt to get local to work
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782 "2025-12-01T21:13:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@AbsoluteReiki](https://community.kinsta.com/u/AbsoluteReiki)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/1 "2025-12-01T21:13:48Z")
I finally managed to configure something that appeared to work after several attempts across several years. Now I can’t get a local site set up; I’m encountering the same problem no matter whether I opt to build with WordPress, use my existing Kinsta site, or set up a custom site. Any help would save me a lot of time, stress, and money for my little tiny weenie site that is meant to make life easier, not make me work at 9 pm on my day off. I’ve tried restarting, I’ve tried deleting the containers and creating a brand new unrelated site, I’ve tried loading a download backup from Kinsta, same result each time. Has anyone successfully used DevKinsta? Would you trust it with a new build that’s taken you months? At the moment, I wouldn’t, but I desperately need to be able to. Also, I’ve discovered that the plugin Tutor LMS Pro doesn’t tell you that the individual plan won’t allow the usual Kinsta staging environment to count as part of the license, like most premium plugins, so I need a local site to work with, as I can use the license for that, apparently. I didn’t know until I was about to push to live, so I missed the 30-day money-back window. It was silly of me to assume they operated as standard, and they don’t say so on their website’s “Transparent Pricing” page. So any help for a tired, frustrated soul would be most appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Adrian\_L](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Adrian_L)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/2 "2025-12-02T03:28:19Z")
Hi @AbsoluteReiki
Welcome to the Kinsta Community!
I am sorry to hear you’re having such issues. To best assist you, can you please provide the following information:
Machine OS version:
DevKinsta version:
Docker Desktop version:
Please also provide me with a copy of the main.log of DevKinsta. You may send this log via direct message to me. If you’re on Windows, you can click the “Reveal log” in the DevKinsta app.
If you’re using Mac, you can go to `/Users/yourusername/Library/logs/Devkinsta` to copy the main.log file.
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### Author:  [@AbsoluteReiki](https://community.kinsta.com/u/AbsoluteReiki)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/3 "2025-12-02T12:54:27Z")
Hi Adrian
Thanks for getting back to me. Here’s the info:
Thanks for responding. I’m on Windows 11 Pro, DevKinsta Version: 213.5.9014, Docker Desktop Version: 4.48
Will this email response be posted on the forum, or can I safely attach the log here?
Thanks
Tina
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/4 "2025-12-02T13:22:55Z")
Hello @AbsoluteReiki 👋 You can send it in DM to me and I’ll share it internally so me and my colleagues can all view it and assist.
Kind regards!
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/6 "2025-12-02T20:22:08Z")
Hello @AbsoluteReiki 👋
Thank you for providing the main.log file.
There seems to be an issue with the database password, logs state it’s missing or incorrect. It’s not the error log message we generally see, but please attempt the following.
This is a complex solution, so you will need to follow each step exactly (use command line instead of terminal since the solution was written for Mac users, but otherwise it should work.
Let me know if the issue persists afterwards 🙏
> [@Error: Something bad happened - when trying to import site from myKinsta](https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-import-site-from-mykinsta/5661/15):
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> Hello @wpcreative-jwwaving_hand As discussed in our chat, I’m posting a complete step by step instructions, if needed in the future. @Seyed My colleague and I gave you the steps in the other threads, but I wanted to tag you here as well. Note: This applies to fixing the issues with site creation that are caused by database access error (in DevKinsta main.log, it’s → ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES) ). Part ONE - RESETING ‘root’ USER PASSW…
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### Author:  [@AbsoluteReiki](https://community.kinsta.com/u/AbsoluteReiki)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/7 "2025-12-03T13:56:46Z")
Seems an awful lot to do just to get the thing to work, and I have no idea how to use “command line”
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 8:37am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/8 "2025-12-04T08:37:22Z")
Hello @AbsoluteReiki 👋
I understand that it’s a complex solution and it does require some time and patience.
I will work on providing exact steps for Windows 11 later in the day, thank you for your patience 🙏
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### Author:  [@AbsoluteReiki](https://community.kinsta.com/u/AbsoluteReiki)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/9 "2025-12-04T12:08:08Z")
I got it by having ChatGPT translate the instructions to suit Windows, and it appears to work.
[DevKinsta.txt](https://community.kinsta.com/uploads/short-url/lcuzhc0Z1sRbf0IVrQs0OBpoLsG.txt) (5.3 KB)
Thanks Tina I
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/10 "2025-12-04T12:45:37Z")
That’s great thinking 👍
To confirm, after following the steps, were you able to continue working with DevKinsta?
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### Author:  [@AbsoluteReiki](https://community.kinsta.com/u/AbsoluteReiki)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/11 "2025-12-04T13:12:26Z")
Yes i was able to create a new site and create from existing site, didnt try using the custom site option.
Tina
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/12 "2025-12-04T14:11:43Z")
Great news! 🎉 I’m happy that it works for you now. Please let us know if you need anything else.
Kind regards!