False alarm. I didn't realize that a change had been made to whimsy.conf that broke mac users, and I first picked up this change when I tried upgrading to Big Sur.
Details here: https://github.com/apache/whimsy/commit/b2fa8ec31a700d5772b40f6bd5ab007d8d3d97e3 - Sam Ruby On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 4:07 PM Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > I upgraded a macbook from macOS Catalina to Big Sur. > > This resulted in a number of messages that various gems needed to be > reinstalled --pristine. However, attempting to do so failed due to > permission errors, and attempting to reinstall the gems resulted in > errors due to headers not being found. > > Not wanting to deal with this mess, I wiped the hard drive and > reinstalled Big Sur. After doing so, setupmymac ran clean, and loaded > the whimsy.local landing page. > > The problem occurred when I navigated to the board agenda tool. It seems > that passenger applications run as 'nobody' rather than either the > configured passenger user or the owner of the config.ru file. To be > fair, Phusion Passenger indicates that Big Sur is not yet a supported > configuration. > > I've opened an issue: > > https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2320 > > - Sam Ruby >