Student (Non-admin) accounts on Mac OS 26.2 unable to run sites

[Harold]

What issue or error are you experiencing?

Web page will not load

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What steps can be taken to replicate the issue? Feel free to include screenshots, videos, etc

Changed users account to “admin” in users and the site was able to load after restarting the station. removed Rights and error came back.

I can not let student accounts be admins on our lab stations, Do you have a work around?

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System Details

• Local Version: 9.2.9+6887

• Operating System (OS) and OS version: Mac 26.2

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Local Logs

Attach your Local Logs here (Help Doc - Retrieving Local’s Log)

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Security Reminder
Local does a pretty good job of scrubbing private info from the logs and the errors it produces, however there’s always the possibility that something private can come through. Because these are public forums, always review the screenshots you are sharing to make sure there isn’t private info like passwords being displayed.

[Nick-B]

Hi @Harold!

You might be able to get around this by having the students change their Router Mode to LocalHost. (Preferences>Advanced>Router Mode)

More on this here:

Launch LocalWP as standard Windows user

Bon jour @jlch – Welcome to the Local Community! I think this is possible – I’d love to hear if it works for you. The main reason that Local requires admin privileges is when starting site in “Site Domain” Router mode. This is because Local needs admin access to the Hosts file in order to register the site domain with the computer. In theory, if you set “Router Mode” to localhost in “Preferences > Advanced”, then Local won’t need to update the hosts file, and users should be able to create sit…

[Harold]

Hello,

Wanted to follow up this did fix the issue.

Thank you.

[Nick-B]

Thank you for letting us know @Harold!