CODEWITHSUNDEEP
githubhugonetlify-cms
YU CHIN WU
YU CHIN WU

Reputation: 21

How come Netlify CMS on localhost is not working?

I’m from Taiwan and not good at English, but I’ll try my best to explain my question.

I use Netlify CMS to build my Hugo website.

Everything runs well, but when I want to change and check if the CMS’s configuration and style is okay, I always need to push my repository to Github, which is disturb me a lot.

So I tried to use local_backend: true in admin/config.yml, then used this command: npx netlify-cms-proxy-server. then the window showed:

info: Netlify CMS File System Proxy Server configured with C:\Users\june.wu\Documents\GitHub\house-blog-hugo-cms
info: Netlify CMS Proxy Server listening on port 8081

It looked it ran successfully on localhost:8081. But when I type localhost:8081 in browser it showed: Cannot GET /

How can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 878

Answers (2)

Lushawn
Lushawn

Reputation: 804

for anyone looking at this in and still finding it unclear, as said in the docs you need to go to your regular development server based on the SSG (static site generator) that you are using once you have started both the NetlifyCMS and SSG dev servers. See point 5 in the beta features docs here.

You are not supposed to try visit the NetlifyCMS 8081 default port to use the CMS locally.

I have also seen behaviour mentioned by a few people that it only works with a / at the end of the path. So for example if using Astro as your SSG (which uses the port :3000 for it's dev server) you should try both:

  1. http://localhost:3000/admin/
  2. http://localhost:3000/admin

Although I have been having issues with the NeltlifyCMS dev server with Astro still...

Upvotes: 1

Alessandro Mercurio
Alessandro Mercurio

Reputation: 508

I can confirm what said in the previous answer. Run npx netlify-cms-proxy-server and go to localhost:8080/admin or try also localhost:8080/admin/ (with ending slash). It should work if you are using default 8080 port.

Ignore that CMS is on port 8081 as said in the script log

Upvotes: 1

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