Please help! Unable to install WP after updating Local

[Kohalik]

Hi,
I have tried installing WordPress on my Local with no success. Shows an error message: Error Installing WordPress for…

Using macOS 10.13.6 and updated Local version 6.6.1+6281

local-logs.zip (43.7 KB)

I have worked with Local before without any problems. The problem occurred after the update.

[sammunoz]

Hello @Kohalik - thank you for your question & welcome to the Local community

It looks like the issue is with your macOS - 10.13 and lower are not supported on Local 6.5.1 and higher.

Please see the following forum response related to this:

502 Bad Gateway (nginx/1.16.0) in all sites after update

Hi @royby (and @lolobomac if this applies to you) - there are two separate issues at play here, and I want to make sure I explain them appropriately. With the update to Local v6.5.1, we updated our PHP versions and recompiled them on the latest MacOS. This caused users to see a 502 error on their existing sites due to a configuration mismatch. Deleting the lightning-services directory was a temporary workaround, and the core issue has been patched and released in Local v6.5.2. Users on mac…

My recommendation would be to downgrade Local to 6.4.3:

Releases

Let me know if this helps,

Sam

[Kohalik]

Hi Sam and thank you for reply!

In the meantime, I tried several variants here myself and found that the latest version of Local started working, when I downgraded php to an earlier version (php 7.3.5).
Of course, one option is to downgrade an older version of Local as suggested.
Thanks anyway!

BR,

Tiit Vimberg

+372 530 540 65
tiit.vimberg@gmail.com

Kontakt Sam Munoz via Local Community (<community@localwp.com>) kirjutas kuupäeval T, 21. veebruar 2023 kell 19:11:

[sammunoz]

Hi @Kohalik -

I’m glad you got it working, thank you for following up here and sharing what worked for you.

I’ll close this ticket for now, but please reach out if you run into any more trouble.

Sam