[Bug]: Error finding executable PHP. Quitting for safety.
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
No source files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the PHP 8.3–8.5 upgrade on macOS ARM64 and inspect the empty output from find-usable-php.php alongside the missing herd83.sock error. Done means PHP executable detection succeeds and sites, CLI commands, and PHP-version switching work again.
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Description
Platform
macOS
Operating system version
macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 (25G83)
System architecture
ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)
Herd Version
1.30.1 (Build: 67)
PHP Version
No response
Bug description
After an update to PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 all sites goes to
502 Bad Gateway
nginx/1.25.4
Any CLI attempt results
Error finding executable PHP. Quitting for safety.
Provided output from find-usable-php.php:
Notice the empty list.
2026/09/25 11:03:59 [crit] 87826#41709585: *6 connect() to unix:/Users/<redacted>/Library/Application Support/Herd/herd83.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: <redacted>.test, request: "GET /admin HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/Users/balazssebesteny/Library/Application Support/Herd/herd83.sock:", host: "<redacted>.test"
ls -la /Users/<redacted>/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/herd83.sock
ls: /Users/<redacted>/Library/Application Support/Herd/herd83.sock: No such file or directory
I can not switch to different PHP version, as the GUI drop down does not work, and the CLI command results the error above, so kinda stuck.
Steps to reproduce
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