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

[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)

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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…