valet: Error running valet. PHP Notice: Undefined index: domain in valet.php

Hi,

So I’m developing a Laravel + Vue app, and I’m getting to the point where Homestead is a little too slow. I decided to give Valet a go, and haven’t been able to get it off the ground.

Composer Installs successfully, no errors on install whatsoever.

However, when I go to valet install I get the following:

PHP Notice:  Undefined index: domain in /Users/kingsley/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/cli/Valet/Nginx.php on line 111

Notice: Undefined index: domain in /Users/kingsley/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/cli/Valet/Nginx.php on line 111

One Laracast forum post mentioned to link or park a domain, so I tried linking my Laravel app, but when I go to visit the URL in the browser I get:

Notice: Undefined index: domain in /Users/kingsley/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/server.php on line 55
404 - Not Found

I’m not sure what other info may help, but Brew is up-to-date, php -v returns v 7.1.0

I’m not sure if it’s related, but when I run nginx, I get:

nginx: [warn] the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1
nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (13: Permission denied)

Does anyone have any idea? Thanks

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FIXED.

To anyone else having a similar problem, I’m not sure on the exact issue but I believe it was something to do with Brew, and permissions with nginx and dnsmasq.

Before installing valet, make sure php71, dnsmasq, nginx, are installed and running ok by using brew services:

brew services list

Which should be:

dnsmasq                    started root     /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
mariadb                    started kingsley /Users/kingsley/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mariadb.plist
nginx                      started root     /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
php71                      started root     /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist

If you see error under any of them, stop all the services by running:

brew services stop --all
sudo brew services stop --all

I think I had nginx started under my user account AND under root (2 running instances).

Restart php, nginx, and dnsmasq as root:

sudo brew services start php71
sudo brew services start dnsmasq
sudo brew service start nginx

Completely remove all valet files in ~/.valet

composer global remove laravel/valet
rm -rf ~/.valet

Then install valet

composer global require laravel/valet
valet install

Hopefully that’ll do the trick!

+20

kingsloi on Jan 2, 2017

Nginx can’t bind to port 80 unless it’s run as root, so nothing should work, haha…

I would check ps aux | grep nginx and see if it actually is running as your user and not as root.

adamwathan on Mar 1, 2017