Loopback Request Failed
WordPress Site Health says: The loopback request to your site failed, this means features relying on them are not currently working as expected. Error: cURL error 28: Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds (http_request_failed)
There are a couple of potential reasons and solutions for this. Here they are, most common first:
- You have recently updated the name servers or DNS for the domain: Wait 48 hours after the DNS changes and the issue will disappear on its own.
- The server has an entry in its /etc/hosts file for this domain: Remove that entry or comment it out by preprending it with #.
The authorization header is missing
WordPress Site Health says: the authorization header is missing.
First, try clicking the Flush Permalinks link under that Site Health report to see if that resolves the issue. If it does not, the issue is probably with your .htaccess file. Look to make sure its rewrites only show the ones found in the WordPress documentation here. Note that if you see a duplicate set of rewrites that are missing the line RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] then that's your problem - remove that duplicate set and your authorization header report will go away.
