Troubleshooting InstantWP start up issues
InstantWP is normally very stable and rock-solid. An InstantWP installation will run for months without any problems. The software underneath InstantWP (QEMU, Alpine Linux) is very similar to the software used by various cloud web hosting providers.
However, for various reasons you will sometimes get problems when InstantWP starts up. As InstantWP is completely portable, it relies on a set of background services to be available so that it will work. If these services are blocked or not started correctly, then you may need to troubleshoot your problem.
The most important first thing is:
- DON'T PANIC.
Here are a few things you can try Normally the InstantWP Control Panel will start up fine and then when you open a web browser you will gate an error and 127.0.0.1 refused to connect error
