Ok I just upgraded from my Mac mini 2012, to a New Mac Mini M4 Base, Squoia 15.7.3. My old machine local just worked. I don’t know if it’s the M4 or Squoia or something else?
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Do you have any Local Add Ons installed and active @davekloempken?
You also mentioned Local didn’t ask for permissions. So when you spun up and created your test site initially it didn’t even give you a prompt for admin password on the device?
I have not installed any local add-ons since this is the first time local isn’t just working.
Yes, I had also downloaded after the local WordPress studio, which asked for access to localhost, which was different from what local did, and is working. I think both asked for basic premistions but asking for access to the local host was new.
I did notice that local didn’t ask my os for local access?
Local should be asking for credentials when you’re creating a new site. Are you an admin user on this device? Any other dev applications or security applications running simultaneously?
There are some other troubleshooting steps you can try from the comments in this thread that might help clean things up too:
Yes, local is asking for credentials. It’s not asking for credentials for the local network (System, Privacy & Security, Local network). If it was listed here, it should work. I have no way to add local here, and it’s not asking to be added here. Yes, I’m an admin
Are you using any kind of external harddrive or have you moved any of your files around @davekloempken?
I took a look back in your log and noticed this:
{"class":"Process","level":"warn","message":"nginx: [emerg] too long path in the unix domain socket in upstream \"unix:%%site.runData%%/php/php-fpm.socket\" in %%site.runData%%/conf/nginx/site.conf:2","process":"nginx","thread":"main","timestamp":"2026-01-29T22:08:22.171Z"}
Is your device still on Sequoia as well? Are you able to update it to Tahoe? Not that there should be any specific issue with Sequoia, but it never hurts to keep things as up to date as possible and see if a refresh helps there.
Yes, I do have an external HD with my Mac Mini M4 16gb Ram, 256 GB internal, 24tb HDD, and 8 HDD. I have not jumped up to Tahoe one; I don’t see a need. And I wanted to test it on one of the partitions of my external, but it failed for some reason. I have kept my Sequoia updated to 15.7.4. I want to get this working before I update and test Tahoe before I update/
Do you want me to try and fully delete all local files and reinstall and try and put it on the external drive or ?? (It I think it’s installing on my very small internal drive)
I think the external drive is what is causing the hiccup here. So as a test could you keep everything Local on the device itself and see if it works? Or have you already tried that method?
Ok, some odd things. First fully uninstalled on my M4 and external drive. I installed it on the internal drive (my backup account), and it worked fine. In my main account, where I just tried to access the already installed local on the internal drive, know is giving me a 502 request error.
Can you share a new Local Log with us @davekloempken? If you click on the ? on the left hand side of your Local app, scroll down a little you’ll see a Download Local Logs button that will wrap everything up in a zip. You can just drag and drop that here. Keep us posted and we’d be happy to help further!
@davekloempken are you trying to move the entire Local application and run it from your external drive? Or are you just moving your site folders to the external drive?
Since my Mac Mini m4 is the base model, I’m running the Home folder on the external drive. I think when I started this, I was running the local application on the external drive. I don’t think I had tried to move the site folder to the external drive.
When I got the first error, I then tried moving the app back to the main drive internally. Then clean installed it on the internal drive and it worked. So I tried to access it from the external drive and just run it, and I’m back to the 502.
I don’t know if I have tried to move both the local application and the site folder to the external, whether it would work or not.
We’ve had some related feature requests @davekloempken (shared below), but essentially, Local can’t be entirely moved/run from an external drive. While your site files might be able to be moved over, Local will still create some of the infrastructure things (NGINX/PHP/MySQL) configuration on the main hard drive.
