valet: Valet not working as expected, browser not loading any of my projects

So, I make clear installation of valet. When I list brew services list I get:

Name    Status  User Plist
php71   started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist
nginx   started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
dnsmasq started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist

So I supposed that everything will work correctly but it`s not. Mac Os High Sierra 10.13.2. Valet domain is app, valet config.json is:

{
    "domain": "app",
    "paths": [
        "/Users/macbook/.valet/Sites",
        "/Users/macbook/laravel"
    ]
}

In my laravel folder all my local projects. I will provide any additional information if needed. Any ideas what is wrong with this?

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Created 7 years ago
Comments: 27 (7 by maintainers)

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We just encountered and resolved a similar issue. We changed the domain to a temporary one then back again which seemed to fix the DNS problems by recreating the resolver and the dnsmasq.conf files. EG:

#Original domain is .test
valet domain foo
valet domain test

+15

ben-rogerson on May 3, 2018

IDK how, but after I change valet domain to test everything start to work ok, thanks a lot for the answers!!!

dmytro-machulskyi on Dec 15, 2017

for me was a issue: sudo /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx -t nginx: [emerg] open() "/usr/local/etc/nginx/valet/elasticsearch.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:44 nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed ( elastic was installed ), i created file manualy and works

devhero-tech on Aug 25, 2019

Sorry need quotes there, my mistake:

sudo /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx -g 'daemon off;'

You need to secure each project, not the parked directory. Super annoying, so unless you have a really good reason for using HTTPS locally, I would just switch to a different TLD, like .test which is our new default.

To clean things up I would run:

cd ~/laravel && valet unsecure
valet domain test

Then if you’ve now got nginx working, try visit one of your projects at my-project.test/.

adamwathan on Dec 15, 2017

Ok looks like nginx isn’t running.

Can you try running:

sudo /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx -t

and seeing if it shows any errors?

If not, run:

sudo /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx -g daemon off;

…to try and start nginx manually and seeing if it complains.

adamwathan on Dec 15, 2017

Can you create that file and try to visit a site again and see if that log updates with more errors? It shouldn’t need to be created but maybe the entire Log folder is missing.