Failed to Import Media Local Apache Website to Flywheel Local

I have a local site hosted on apache/ XAMPP.

I’m trying to move it over to flywheel local tool but when I export my content and try to import into the flywheel local instance I keep receiving the error Failed to import Media.

I followed the instructions on this post https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/error-loading-images-to-media-library/2198/11 but found that the database value was already empty.

Anyone encountered this before?

Clearing that DB value will only help if the Uploads are not working at all on the site.

This error could be due to several reasons and it could just be that WordPress is not able to reach the XAMPP install. For now I would suggest uploading the XAMPP site to a web host and then retry the import.

Thanks for your response.

What I ended up doing was backing up and restoring the database from the xampp install and then using the Wordpress Command line wp search-replace command to update the URL’s and migrate from xampp to flywheel local.

I did see something as I was surfing that media imports are possibly blocked on localhost but I only saw it once, there was no link and no workaround mentioned so I’m not even sure if it was credible. Based off your recommendation though it seems there might be something to it. If anyone stumbles across this topic and knows how to allow local instances to communicate and download media please reply! Both of these solutions are less convenient and beginner friendly than exporting and importing the content file.