What issue or error are you experiencing? When trying to Router mode to Site Domains I get the message “Heads up! Local’s router is having trouble starting” Looking at the logs I’m getting bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (13: Permission denied) I’ve tried to correct nginx capabilities manually using s…

Hi @coded_chris Usually this means there is a port conflict going on, or something is blocking Local. This could be antivirus, firewall or security related. It could also be competing developer applications if you’re also using something like XAMP or MAMP. More details on troubleshooting this here…

Hwy @Nick-B Nah port 80 is clear. On linux so not using any of that.

You said it used to work for you on a previous version. If you downgrade are you able to get things working? [image] Downgrade Local Version Downgrading Local may be used to troubleshoot issues presented with a newer version or other various reasons. We recommend running Local on the la…

Downgraded to 7.1.2 and it works perfectly. Then I upgraded to 7.2.0 and it happens again. I can work with 7.1.2 for now.

Glad to hear that’s working @coded_chris ! I’ll check with the team on this to review but glad you have a workaround in the meantime.

Awesome @Nick-B thanks so much for your help. Really appreciated.

Hey @Nick-B cheers. I went through that one a while back but no luck. I did notice that on the 7.1.2 after switching router modes I would get the dialogue box asking for root permissions but on the new versions it didn’t seem to come up. I tried seeting them manually with setcap but no luck there ei…

Sorry for the glitch here, @coded_chris . If you have time, it could be helpful for us to have the output of these commands from your system: ls -al /usr/sbin/getcap ls -al ~/.config/Local/lightning-services/ /usr/sbin/getcap ~/.config/Local/lightning-services/nginx-1.16.0+5/bin/linux/sbin/nginx /…

Sure thing @nickc 1. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14648 Jun 7 23:55 /usr/sbin/getcap 2. total 36 drwxrwxr-x 9 chris chris 4096 Oct 14 12:28 . drwx------ 19 chris chris 4096 Oct 31 16:45 … drwxr-xr-x 4 chris chris 4096 Oct 11 20:05 mailhog-1.0.0+3 drwxr-xr-x 5 chris chris 4096 Oct 11 20:05 mari…

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Nick-B October 17, 2023, 2:52pm 9

Hi @coded_chris - One of the devs reminded me we had a user come in with the same issues recently. There is some more insight and debug steps at the link below:

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