I have allowed elements to receive local network connections in the firewall and in the Privacy & Security settings. I restarted my Mac, iPad and iPhone but am still not able to connect the elements server. I do not have any other third party sw like Little Snitch, etc on my Mac. I also am now getti…

@jenkman Steve, I’m not that familiar with MacOS firewall, so this is a few adjacent observations. Maybe just turn off firewall for testing purposes. I’ve run w/o forever, but your environment could have different needs. The process that needs to receive the connections is php-n, where ‘n’ is so…

[image] ThatPhilGuy: lsof | grep 'php.*LISTEN' I followed your suggestions and the port number matched. I even forgot the wifi network on the Mac and reconnected. I have seen that maybe trashing a plist file for the network and doing a restart may work. None of the above worked. I am unable …

It may not be relevant but just in case: On your Mac, check Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network and see if Elements.App is checked?

@jenkman Here is a test that may help partition the problem. In MacOS terminal, issue: nc -vz <yourMacIP> <phpPortNumber> Example: nc -vz 192.168.68.52 49879 Connection to 192.168.68.52 port 49879 [tcp/*] succeeded! This will confirm the php-n process is listening. If it succeeds, then…

@logrunner That’s an interesting point. The php-nprocess that serves the html locally has Elements, as it’s parent. The default is not to inherit this privacy setting, but Elements is probably handling it. (he said without evidence :^) It just worked for me on first try. Here is a decent summar…

@ThatPhilGuy Thanks for the assist. I restarted my Mac a second time after the deletion of the network pref files. Now it works flawlessly. I did also try another project file and restart the server. that kicked in the butt a little I suspect. thanks,

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dan (Dan) February 17, 2026, 9:14pm 8

Wow, thanks for the support @ThatPhilGuy, it really sounds like you know your stuff!

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