Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

[Bug]: Polyscope breaks herd nginx file when generating a workspace

Open
#182 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
macos, nginx

Research direction

Reproduce the first workspace assignment on macOS and inspect ~/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/valet/Nginx/silver-lobster.test, especially the malformed rewrite and placeholder values reported in the issue. Validate the generated vhost with nginx and confirm that Herd .test domains remain reachable while the Polyscope workspace works.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

needs information
Platform

macOS

Operating system version

macos 15.6

System architecture

ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

PolyScope Version

latest

Bug description

All of herds .test domains refused to connect after opening polyscope for the first time and assigning it to a Sites/Repo on my mac. claude helped me track the root cause to a malformed vhost written by polyscope.

~/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/config/valet/Nginx/silver-lobster.test

 1	server {
 2	    listen 127.0.0.1:80;
 3	    #listen 127.0.0.1:80; # valet loopback
 4	    server_name silver-lobster.test www.silver-lobster.test *.silver-lobster.test;
 5	    return 301 httpspasted10:36 AMClaude responded: Confirmed — line 27 rewrite ^ "" last; (and line 70).Identified broken placeholder configuration and prescribed remedial stepsIdentified broken placeholder configuration and prescribed remedial stepsConfirmed — line 27 rewrite ^ "" last; (and line 70). nginx 1.25.4 rejects the empty "" replacement, and that's fatal for the whole config. This whole file is a Polyscope placeholder vhost — root /, fastcgi_index "", SCRIPT_FILENAME "", the blank rewrite — it's a skeleton for a workspace that never got a real document root wired in. Broken as written, and it's been taking all of Herd down with it.

I fixed it by removing the file
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Herd/config/valet/Nginx/silver-lobster.test

However that gets herd working but not polyscope. I'm unsure why its causing a malformed vhost?

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

Dominant language
No language data
Stars
20
Forks
0
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from beyondcode/polyscope-community

All issues in beyondcode/polyscope-community

Similar issues

More DevOps issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.