After updating Local, I am unable start sites. I see “Your Lightning services are missing… Click “Apply” next to the missing service(s) to update.” I do not see “Apply” or anything that says “Lightning services.”
I reviewed your documentation and other recent relevant help tickets. Found no guidance.
Troubleshooting Questions
Does this happen for all sites in Local, or just one in particular?
All sites in Local
Are you able to create a new, plain WordPress site in Local and access it in a Browser?
No, the process timed out and the application froze. I killed the Local app, restarted, and the new site appears and runs.
Replication
Describe the steps that others can take to replicate this issue. If you have screenshots that can help clarify what is happening, please include them!
Update Local
Try to start or create a site
System Details
Which version of Local is being used?
Latest
What Operating System (OS) and OS version is being used?
For example: macOS Catalina or Windows 10 Professional
Windows 10 Professional
Attach the Local Log. See this Help Doc for instructions on how to do so:
Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for all of the feedback! We (the Local team) realize that we talk about Lightning Services all day, but it doesn’t mean much to our end users !
You can think of Lightning services as the individual pieces of server software that run a site. In this case, our update changed the default version of PHP to 7.41 for the preferred environment, which meant that any site that was using the 7.3.5 version was missing it!
As others have mentioned, the fix is to click the “Apply” button next to the PHP version to re-download that missing Lightning Service!
I just updated to 6.2.0 and have a “Lightning Services Missing” notification that seems to stop me from launching any local sites. I see that the issue was raised a couple years back but, was archived due to lack of activity. Any pointers?
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.
When I reinstalled Local by Flywheel I get a red bar that states “Your Lightning services are missing… Click Apply next to the missing service(s) to update”. When I go to Local menu and select Services it is empty. How do I even install Lightning services?
Thanks
When I reinstalled Local by Flywheel I get a red bar that states “Your Lightning services are missing… Click Apply next to the missing service(s) to update”. When I go to Local menu and select Services it is empty. How do I even install Lightning services?
Thanks
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