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[Bug]: 1.30.2 creates PHP 8.2 config and ~/.zshrc lines on every start, although 8.2 isn't installed

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
56/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
macos, php, zsh
Domain
desktop, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the startup behavior on macOS with PHP 8.2 uninstalled, then inspect Herd's PHP-version discovery and startup configuration generation. The issue identifies the affected outputs: config/php/82, the 8.2 FPM config files, and the PHP 8.2 lines in ~/.zshrc. Done means startup no longer recreates these files or shell lines for an uninstalled version; verify with the reported reproduction steps.

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Description

fixed-in-next-release macOS
Platform

macOS

Operating system version

macOS 27.0.1 (26A434)

System architecture

ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

Herd Version

1.30.2 (Build: 68)

PHP Version

Not version-specific. Installed: PHP 8.5.10 (global) and 7.4.33. PHP 8.2 is not installed.

Bug description

Since updating to Herd 1.30.2, Herd creates a configuration for PHP 8.2 every time it starts, although PHP 8.2 is not installed:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/php/82/php.ini
  • ~/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/fpm/8.2-fpm.conf
  • ~/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/fpm/8.2-fpm-debug.conf
  • and it appends these lines to ~/.zshrc:

Herd injected PHP 8.2 configuration.

export HERD_PHP_82_INI_SCAN_DIR="/Users//Library/Application Support/Herd/config/php/82"

herd php:list shows 8.2 as "Not Installed", there is no php82 binary in Herd's bin folder, and no site is isolated to 8.2. Only 8.2 is affected; the 7.4 and 8.5 configs are not touched.

Herd 1.30.1 did not do this: none of these existed before, and they appeared the moment 1.30.2 started for the first time.

Expected: Herd writes configuration and shell lines only for PHP versions that are installed, as 1.30.1 did.

Steps to reproduce
  1. Herd 1.30.2 with PHP 8.2 not installed (here: 7.4 and 8.5).
  2. Quit Herd.
  3. Delete config/php/82, config/fpm/8.2-fpm.conf, config/fpm/8.2-fpm-debug.conf and the two "PHP 8.2" lines in ~/.zshrc.
  4. Open Herd.
  5. Within a few seconds the three files are back, and the two lines are appended to ~/.zshrc again.

(My ~/.zshrc is a symlink to a file in a git repository; Herd writes through it, which is how I noticed.)

Relevant log output
$ herd php:list
| 8.5 *   | Installed     |
| 8.4     | Not Installed |
| 8.3     | Not Installed |
| 8.2     | Not Installed |
| 7.4     | Installed     |

$ ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/bin | grep php
php
php74
php74-fpm
php85
php85-fpm

$ ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/config/php ~/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/config/fpm
config/fpm: 7.4-fpm.conf 8.2-fpm-debug.conf 8.2-fpm.conf 8.5-fpm.conf
config/php: 74 82 85 cacert.pem
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