Laravel Valet - Cannot ping, "Unknown host"

Have you followed any of these? https://laracasts.com/search?q=valet

@rainieren maybe something else is blocking the port 80, if you have MAMP or something else installed.

I Indeed had MAMP installed. I removed it and tried again. It still does not seem to work. I followed the videos @bugsysha said but it does not solve anything.

@nakov Unfortunately, lsof -i tcp:80 does not return anything. Also, valet restart does not change anything. I added 127.0.0.1 to my DNS settings in System preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS hoping that will change anything but it does not. I did dig foobar.test but is does not show the ANSWER SECTION.

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May it be the content of dnsmasq.conf at /etc/.valet/dnsmasq.conf?

If nothing is returned then it means that the nginx is not started at all. Try starting the services using:

sudo brew services start

@nakov nginx is started see here https://imgur.com/a/FDRy9pl But it is not returning anything

Disable MAMP if it runs on startup. Remove all related to Valet. Remove all services that came with Valet and MAMP. Restart computer. Make sure that nothing is running, if you find something that remained installed remove it and restart. Repeat until clear of junk. Install from scratch Valet with instructions from the documentation or videos here on Laracasts.

I uninstalled everything related to valet. I removed all brew services such as nginx, dnsmasq, mysql etc. and tried to do valet install again. It gave me an error and did brew doctor. This says that there are broken symlinks found and I think that is the issue. It says I have to do brew cleanup but then It gives me the error Error: Permission denied @ apply2files - /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins

I fixed the issue but now I when I run composer global remove weprovide/valet-plus it says Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

I removed everything and started back from scratch with nothing. Followed every step in the right order and still have the original problem. I am running out of ideas to try

So you have removed that global composer package?

@rainieren and did you parked valet in a directory with projects?

valet links shows that you have the urls that you are trying?

valet links return no urls and I have removed the global package

@rainieren so did you parked valet within a folder with projects?

valet park?

Or inside the project folder run:

valet link projectname

and access it as projectname.test in your browser

Then you need to do what @nakov suggested if you have Valet installed. If not then go step by step. And if you follow documentation or tutorials you are either missing some step or not looking till the end of a video. Cause just installing it isn't enough. You have to tell it which folder to use/monitor.

None of the things suggested worked unfortunately. I created a stackoverflow thread with a more detailed explanation. see here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59478336/laravel-valet-cannot-ping-unknown-host

@rainieren I am sure you checked this answers as well, but just in case.. here there are, follow all the steps:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37730896/1457270

Starting the dnsmasq as root as well:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/42077147/1457270

I recently got a MacBook and want to use Valet.

Here you said you are having issues installing Valet

I went to the GitHub page of Valet+

but in your SO thread you say Valet+.

What is it out of those two? Majority of users here use https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/valet and maybe you should try it to. Not sure if you are confused by the Valet+ that it is official Laravel product but it is not.

Read the stackoverflow link I've send. It has a more detailed explanation

@rainieren I see the benefits on using valet-plus, but I also see 85 opened issues and based on the closed rate, approximately once a month an issue is closed. So I would rather use Docker instead if you want those benefits, and for everything else just the Laravel Valet straight from the Laravel documentation. Never had a problem with that package. Even if I did there was always an answer, and the maintainers are much more active to fix any issue.

Just my 2 cents at last :) Don't know if you've followed all the answers from the links I provided above, even the one with:

sudo brew services start dnsmasq

which should most probably fix your no permission issue.

But anyhow, I would not use this package as it seems it is not reliable and not actively maintained.

I got it working. I can ping now but when I create a site it does not seem to work. I created a site called example and it should return a simple string when I access example.test in chrome. Instead it returns This site is not reachable

@rainieren then we go back again, do you have the valet parked :) or valet links shows the site?

Yes valet links shows the correct site but in chrome it says the site is not reachable ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

@rainieren still using valet-plus right? Try running valet fix it might help :)

Other then this, I really don't know anymore. I use valet without the extra package. It works perfectly fine.

@nakov I am having this issue too. I added valet park to my project directory and followed the documentation but when I run ping foobar.test, it says unresolved host. My port is showing nginx running. Pls help.