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Valet is not able to resolve host after I changed my mac username

The question title says it all. Things that I tried:

1) Uninstalled laravel/valet composer package globally and reinstalled it. Reinstalled valet. No luck.

2) Deleted the ~/.config/valet/dnsmasq.conf file and ran valet tld test to reset all settings. Didn't work.

Output of brew services list:

dnsmasq   started root   /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
mysql@5.7 started root   /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.mysql@5.7.plist
nginx     started root   /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
php       started root   /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php.plist
redis     started tanmay /Users/tanmay/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

Someone on SO also had same issue, unfortunately, he did not specify where did he make the changes.

What can I do now?

Solution

  • For anyone facing the same problem:

    1) Open the following file with a text editor: /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

    2) You will find two lines:

    conf-file=/Users/OLD_USER_NAME/.config/valet/dnsmasq.conf

conf-file=/Users/NEW_USER_NAME/.config/valet/dnsmasq.conf

    Comment out the first one