Curl Error Using Guzzle using Laravel Valet and Passport

This is a niche issue with: Laravel, Valet, Passport, Guzzle, Curl, API

If you’re using Laravel Passport and you’re doing something like this:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;

try {
    $client = new Client();
    $client->post('site.test/oath/token', [some params]);

And you get an error “Laravel guzzle cURL error 6: Could not resolve host” while making an api post request. Check these two things.

• Make sure your curl version and php curl version match
• Add “127.0.0.1 project.test” to your /etc/hosts

One of the two should work.

Make sure your curl version and php curl version match

Quick way to check if this is your problem is to do:
curl --version and php --ri curl

The versions should match. If they don’t it’s probably because brew has installed curl-openssl. This can be removed by doing:
brew uninstall curl-openssl --ignore-dependencies

Add your .test site to host

For Mac users open your “/etc/hosts” file and add this to the bottom.

127.0.0.1 example.test

On Windows it’s “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”