Can't start Apache

massimo-cassandro

I tried to set up a simple server with apache and php 8, bit Indigo alwayes returns:

The system stack failed to start.
nginx: [emerg] host not found in upstream "ppp.local" in /Users/max/.indigo/stacks/system-stack/nginx_reverse_proxy/conf/sites-enabled/rp.ppp.local.conf:35

Indigo

Hi @massimo-cassandro, thanks for reporting this issue, much appreciated! I was actually able to reproduce it myself using the configuration you described.

I'm pretty confident that the problem has occurred because you've specified a .local domain, and these are reserved by Bonjour / Zeroconf / mDNS networking and your Mac is confused about where it should look to resolve that domain. Have you had .local working in another development environment on your Mac? Regardless, I think the generally-accepted wisdom is that something different than .local would be a better choice.

To help ensure others don't experience the same issue you have, I'm tempted to add a blocklist to the accepted domain names in Indigo, basically disallowing .local. What do you think?

massimo-cassandro

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I have been using .local domains from my development environments for a long time. I usually use MAMP PRO to create local development sites and have never had this type of problem.
Anyway, it wouldn't be a big deal to change this habit.

I take this opportunity for some little things.

A very useful feature of MAMP is the ability to set the php version as the system version (by modifying some contents of .profile or.bash_profile, I think). Is there anything similar expected in Indigo?

Will there be a mail server among the various services?

Finally a small suggestion: please insert a link to the Indigo site in one of the menu items. Finding your site by a google search is quite difficult (there are a lot of "indigo") ...

Indigo

It's interesting that MAMP Pro handles .local domains — don't suppose you have any idea how it does its domain resolution? I'm wondering if it writes to your /etc/hosts so those domains resolve to your Mac. I suspect macOS's name resolution will give your hosts file precedence over anything else. I do still think it's better practice to avoid the .local namespace so I'm glad you're open to that.

massimo-cassandro set the php version as the system version

Absolutely. It's very high on my priority list actually, as I need this functionality continually myself. At present I maintain a list of EXPORT commands that I paste into the terminal, so you can imagine I am eager to have Indigo handle this better. I want to do it properly though, so it's not a quick feature to add. There are a few other posts here that touch on this, which you may be interested in reading eg:

I haven't thought of adding a mail server; I do hope to add MailHog as an Indigo service, but that is likely to be some way off. Would it do what you want?

Finally, thanks for the excellent suggestion to add a link to the Indigo site from a menu item in the app itself. I'll definitely do this!

Indigo

massimo-cassandro Finally a small suggestion: please insert a link to the Indigo site in one of the menu items. Finding your site by a google search is quite difficult (there are a lot of "indigo") ...

This is implemented in beta 11 which has just been released. Thanks again for the idea!

massimo-cassandro

Hi, I don't know how MAMP handles .local sites, but I took a look at /etc/host and you are right: Mamp writes something to the host file when activated and restores the original file when closed.

About MailHog: I don't know, but if it allows you to send test emails, that's fine.

About the cli version of php (or something else). The main difference with MAMP is that it only allows you to set the same version of PHP, Apache etc. for all your sites, while Indigo allows you to have different versions for each of them. This is a really good improvement over MAMP for me, and the best would be if, likewise, I could have a different CLI version for each project directory.
It could be writing some configuration files in the project root directories?

Thank you

Indigo

massimo-cassandro best would be if, likewise, I could have a different CLI version for each project directory.
It could be writing some configuration files in the project root directories?

You're reading my mind here 🙂 That's absolutely what I want to achieve. It's actually slightly more powerful than that even, because one stack can have many different PHP's, even the same version but configured differently. I doubt many people will want to do that, but I do (lol) so I want it to work in that scenario as well: basically I want to be able to easily specify which services in a stack will appear on my command line.

Indigo

Just a heads-up that shell integration has been implemented in beta 15. Check out the docs for more info.