This site can’t be reached - Restarting laptop frequently to work in ddev env

By drupol on 30 Jan 2023 at 21:05 UTC

Hello,

I have ddev local environment set up. At first start of laptop, drupal runs just fine in ddev environment (very slow tho). After computer stays idle for few hours, everything stops working. I also end the docker service from the task manager and then try to restart everything, still nothing works. I get this error when I try to access the site

This site can’t be reached

ddev-drupal9.ddev.site took too long to respond.

Try:

Checking the connection

Checking the proxy and the firewall

Running Windows Network Diagnostics

ERR_TIMED_OUT

https://ibb.co/3TpBjW4

https://ibb.co/D7GJG5S

https://ibb.co/t26HNjW

I face this issue almost every day while docker containers are still running. In this case, I restart the laptop to make everything work again. How can I fix it without restarting the laptop each time?

Comments

You can restart DDev rather

Jaypan commented 30 January 2023 at 23:33

You can restart DDev rather than restarting your whole system.

How do you restart DDev? DDev

drupol commented 31 January 2023 at 02:29

How do you restart DDev? DDev commands do not run when I have the issue. I tried DDev poweroff commands before. It did not do anything. DDev commands work just fine when I start my laptop. DDev commands stop working after system is idle for few hours or overnight.

Sounds like a system problem,

Jaypan commented 31 January 2023 at 05:19

Sounds like a system problem, not a Drupal issue.

Okay, thanks!

drupol commented 31 January 2023 at 17:11

Okay, thanks!

Might want to check in Discord DDEV support

pheski commented 4 February 2023 at 16:13

rfay does a fantastic job supporting ddev and helping folks solve problems through the DDEV discord channel. If you haven't solved this, I'd ask there.

https://discord.gg/kDvSFBSZfs

Same issue, random intervals in occurances.

allan.thecodemaster commented 28 January 2024 at 19:34

At one point a simple ddev start works well and I can access my site and at another point I get the famous site cant be reached on the same system, frankly I don't think its OS or laptop issue, it must an issue between DDEV, Drupal and Docker, I hope this year this issue can taken a little more seriously because its always been here and a lot of people lose a lot of time when this issue happens. It get quite frustrating.
Personally I don't have the expertise to diagnose the problem and see which software between the three is responsible however this incompatibility is quite costly.

Suggest asking your question on Discord

pheski commented 28 January 2024 at 20:00

DDEV has a pretty active support community ( > 1600 members) on Discord. Randy Fay who maintains DDEV is active there. DDEV has debugging tools.

I'd urge you to post your problem on Discord. If it is actually a DDEV problem, that is your best source of help. They are also excellent at helpibng you isolate problems originating outside the DDEV realm and pointing to solutions.

DDEV on Discord: https://discord.gg/5wjP76mBJD