Services

Valet manages Nginx, PHP-FPM, the database server, Redis, Mailpit and its name resolution. They start when your machine boots.

Starting and stopping

valet start              # all services
valet restart php nginx  # only these
valet stop mailpit
valet status             # PHP-FPM and Nginx status

start, restart and stop accept any of nginx, php, mysql, redis, mailpit and hosts (name resolution). Without a service name they act on all of them.

Catching mail with Mailpit

Mailpit catches every email your applications send, so nothing reaches real inboxes while you develop. Its web interface is at https://mails.test.

Point your application’s SMTP settings at it. For Laravel:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=127.0.0.1
MAIL_PORT=1025
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

Mailpit replaced MailHog. When you upgrade, Valet removes MailHog’s service, binary, site and certificates left behind by older releases.

Redis

Redis listens on the default port, 127.0.0.1:6379. On RHEL 10 and its rebuilds, which ship Valkey instead of Redis, Valet installs Valkey, which speaks the same protocol.

Opening projects in your editor

Run these in a project directory, or pass a folder:

Command	Editor
valet code	Visual Studio Code
valet ps	PhpStorm
valet subl	Sublime Text
valet atom	Atom