So I recently had an update issue where I landed up downgrading to Windows 8. As I need to do my work, I have re-installed my XAMPP server as well as Acrylic DNS Proxy.

Unfortunately, Acrylic is not working, and I think I may have missed something.

My AcrylicHosts file looks like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 *.local

Apache is configured correctly, and it does work if I add a manual entry to hosts. I turned off the firewall and restarted Acrylic, but that didn't change anything. I've flushed the DNS cache. I've made sure that the Ethernet DNS is set to 127.0.0.1. I did see a suggestion regarding actually having to connect an Ethernet cable to 'activate' it or something, but that didn't work - besides I didn't have to do that when I was using Windows 8.1.

Anything else I can do to get Acrylic working?