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fallenturtle
New Member
September 1, 2018
Question

Forticlient keeps breaking my local dev enviroment

  • September 1, 2018
  • 8 replies
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I'm using a Mac and I use Laravel Valet https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/valet for my development environment on my Mac. It uses Nginx and DnsMasq so that any url with a .test domain points to my locally installed sites.

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue where when my computer comes back from sleep while connected to through my employer's VPN *.test no longer resolve to my localhost (127.0.0.1).

If I issue the command to reinstall Valet it starts working again and I'm also still able to services and sites available over the VPN. This is what the output is when i reinstall Valet (which is done through the terminal):

Stopping nginx...
Installing nginx configuration...
Installing nginx directory...
Updating PHP configuration...
Restarting php...
Restarting dnsmasq...
Restarting nginx...
Valet installed successfully!

 

There's also a command to restart Valet, which outputs:

Restarting php...
Restarting nginx...
Valet services have been restarted.

 

But this doesn't fix the issue, so its not just a matter of restarting nginx or php. I've also tried starting and stopping dnsmasq and that doesn't work either.

 

Oddly, if I connect to the VPN while Valet is working, I have no issues, its only when the VPN reconnected after sleep.

 

Any ideas on the issue and what I could do to try to resolve it?

    8 replies

    scheMeZa
    New Member
    October 22, 2018

    What did you end up doing?

     

    I'm experiencing the same issue.

    scheMeZa
    New Member
    October 22, 2018

    I've noticed that his only happens when forticlient disconnects.

    scheMeZa
    New Member
    October 31, 2018

    Sorry, is this the wrong place to report the problem?

     

    It's really annoying.

     

    Will other SSL VPN clients work with my forticlient details?

     

    If so, any recommended alternatives?

    Arwin
    Visitor III
    July 26, 2022

    Same problem here, FortiClient 7.0.6.0.208 (ZTNA version).

    It does not work in combination with Laravel Valet (dnsmasq). Hopefully this will be fixed.

    For now i change my /etc/hosts file manually.

    arturas_kinfirm
    New Member
    September 21, 2022

    What did you change? I got same problem, valet doesn't work after installing FortiClient

    Arwin
    Visitor III
    September 21, 2022
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