[Bug]: Shows Welcome to Herd installation screen every time I open it.

[ralphmorris]

Platform

macOS

Operating system version

macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

System architecture

ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

Herd Version

1.6.0 (24)

PHP Version

PHP8.3

Bug description

Hi there,

I've just stopped using Homestead with vagrant/parrallels and set up Herd instead.

Every time I open Herd it shows me the Welcome screen saying "Let's get started" etc. I click to begin and it reinstalls PHP all over again.

Then, the sites I've set up seem to load, but only one works with SSL, even though they are all enabled.

All the sites I have are subdomains under a main project. eg. maindomain.test, media.maindomain.test, metrics.maindomain.test.

Lastly, none of the services look like they are running as the menu always says "Start all" and the active state is greyed out. When I click "Start all" the Nginx active state goes green for a couple of seconds then back to grey, without any error message. But the sites are technically running (without SSL) so something must be running.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with previously using homestead. But homestead etc is all turned off so shouldn't be running at all. Herd installed perfectly on my personal laptop a few months ago and works great, but seems to not be installed correctly on this work one.

Thanks

Ralph

Steps to reproduce

Not sure what to add. It seems to force me to go back to initial welcome page every time I open it.

Relevant log output

No response

[mpociot]

Do you have any kind of special user/access right management on your Mac?
Herd should prompt you for your admin password during the onboarding and then generate a /etc/sudoers.d/herd file.
Does that exist for you?

[ralphmorris]

Thanks @mpociot, for the speedy reply. Yes we do, it's an app called Mosyle Self-Service. Herd prompted me for an admin password. I then had to open Self-Service to request admin on demand which gives me admin rights for 5 mins, which allowed me to install Herd. Sorry I should have mentioned that, it did cross my mind!

No that file doesn't exist. Is there any way around this? Or do I need to request an actual admin user user/pass?

[sschlein]

Herd is not designed for this setup at the moment, so you can try doing it as you described, but I am afraid that it could be impossible for you to run Herd in such an environment without constantly facing issues.

[paulvl]

I'm actually facing same issue and have no onther apps, and user access is default mac user. Everytime I boot I have to complete the "Welcome" workflow and everytime I'm asked por admin password. I have "lunch on startup" feature enabled.

[mpociot]

@paulvl did you see this comment?
#832 (comment)

[paulvl]

@paulvl did you see this comment? #832 (comment)

🫶 thanks!!