Error Router

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Hey everyone!

I just encountered this after finally upgrading to MacOS Catalina and thought I would share the solution.

Symptoms

When you open Local and try to start a site, you’ll likely see a banner across the top indicating that Local's router is having trouble starting.

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If you examine the local (which you can find by following the steps in this forum post:
How do I retrieve Local's log file? - FAQ - Local Community ) – You’ll see errors that look something like this:

2020/03/19 09:26:58 [emerg] 22206#0: open() \"/Users/benjamin/Library/Application Support/Local/run/router/nginx/logs/error.log\" failed (13: Permission denied)

Fix (MacOS)

If you navigate to where the error points you, you’ll likely notice that the permissions have somehow changed so that root owns the error.log file. The fix is to change the ownership of that file and then click the “Retry” button within Local.

I did this using a terminal and this command:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Local/run/router/nginx/logs
sudo chown <your-computer-username> error.log

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Once that ownership has changed, click the “Retry” button within Local to start the router.

Fix (Windows)

I haven’t reproduced this in Windows, but I imagine the steps would be similar. To summarize:

  • Navigate to where Local stores the router configuration.
  • Update the ownership or permissions of the error.log file so that they are more permissive
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