Uninstall
Remove HF Local completely from Windows, macOS or Linux, and choose whether to keep your websites and databases.
Uninstalling HF Local is a full clean. It stops every server and removes everything HF Local added. You choose whether to keep your websites and databases.
Where: HF Local › Settings › Uninstall HF Local…
Uninstall from the app
- Open Settings and click Uninstall HF Local….
- Tick Keep my websites (htdocs) and databases (data) to keep them. Without it, they are deleted too.
- Click Uninstall and confirm when your system asks.
HF Local removes its servers, settings and logs, the trusted HTTPS certificate, the .test lines in the hosts file
and the open-at-sign-in setting. The window closes when it is done.
Warning: without Keep my websites (htdocs) and databases (data), your websites and databases are deleted. This can't be undone.
Other ways
| System | How |
|---|---|
| Windows | Windows Settings › Apps › HF Local |
| macOS | the app is moved to the Trash by the uninstall above |
| Linux (.deb) | hostfog uninstall, then sudo apt remove hostfog-panel |
| Linux (.tar.gz) | ./install.sh --uninstall |
| any, from a terminal | hostfog uninstall (add --keep-sites to keep your websites and databases) |
On macOS, Apache, PHP and MariaDB from Homebrew are shared with other programs, so they stay (remove them with
brew uninstall httpd php mariadb if you want).