Yet another "This page is currently offline." issue haver

The CMS Questions
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I’ve got Kirby running on my webserver, works just fine.

On my local machine I am using Laravel Herd and I am getting the error

"This page is currently offline. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and will fix it as soon as possible.

Advice for developers and administrators:
Change the PHP version to one supported by your version of Kirby"

I have 8.4.7 installed according to ‘php -version’ in the terminal and also phpinfo() in the error page.

I recently installed a few command line tools which I have removed, and I had also turned on the macOS ‘Sites’ localhost feature but that is also now disabled via my troubleshooting.

I am feeling a little stuck as I cannot figure out what the mismatch is!

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Which Kirby version have you installed, according to the chosen tag, Kirby 3. PHP 8.4 support was added with Kirby 4.6. See PHP compatibility matrix: Requirements | Kirby CMS

Please note: if this is a new project, do not use Kirby 3 anymore, as it is no longer under development and will have security updates only until December 1, 2025. The latest Kirby version is 4.7.2.

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welp, turns out I was running a version from Jan 2024 - not sure what version it was

I wasn’t sure how to upgrade (the primary ‘update to v4’ page doesn’t seem to include directions) but I managed to find the manual upgrade instructions and now it seems to be working