Windows 10 - InstantWP could not work on port 10080

[HoaLeMinh]

Hi,
After I installed InstantWP on my laptop, Windows 10, I opened up the control panel, clicked on Wordpress Frontpage, the Chrome says "This site can’t be reached". Then I followed the troubleshoot guide at https://github.com/webtoolsgroup/InstantWP/wiki/Troubleshooting-InstantWP-start-up-issues#restart-the-database-or-web-server-using-the-ssh-terminal and see that

• QEMU Window starts ok.
• use SSH Terminal to restart Apache and Mariadb and check their status, both Started.
• use SFTP to access files: ok.
• Iwp Web console doesn't work, phpInfo doesn't work. Basically browsing to 127.0.0.1:10080 doesn't work.
• The Windows hosts file is empty by default, no special config.

Please help me to identify the issue. Thanks in advance.

[dslaby]

I had a similar problem that resolved with setting Chrome to run as administrator after making the setting change to allow port 10080. However, I'm still working on getting InstantWP to run on Windows 11 Pro.

[jesusgarza]

I used Firefox and allowed the 10080 port and it did worked. I am using Windows 11.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1083282

[teddybouch]

I seem to have the same issue as OP, but I can't seem to be able to figure out the solutions. Sorry, I usually do this kind of thing in Linux. @dslaby - was the setting change to allow port 10080 a new rules in Windows Defender Firewall? How did you get Chrome to run as administrator? Since I'm trying to get to the webpages using buttons on the InstantWP Control Panel I don't see an option to run it as admin, and when I tried to run the browser as admin so that the control panel would just open a new tab nothing happened when I clicked the various buttons on the control panel.

[teddybouch]

Nevermind - I figured it out.

In case anyone else is similarly ignorant as I was, Chrome by default blocks a number of ports, including 10080. The fix I found to get around this was by modifying the Chrome shortcut to add "--explicitly-allowed-ports=10080" and opening the Chrome instance from that shortcut before trying any of the InstantWP buttons.

[mauamolat]

Can you explain how to add the "--explicitly-allowed-ports=10080" in the shortcut?