cwp open

cwp open [env] [flags]

Acts on the local site unless an environment is named.

Argument	What it is	Default
[env]	environment to open (default: the local DDEV site)

Flag	What it does	Default
--print	write the URL to stdout and open nothing	off

Plus the shared flags --json, --verbose and --dry-run.

What it does

Opens the site in a browser.

The URL comes from DDEV itself locally — falling back to the conventional <name>.ddev.site when the project is stopped — and from environments.<env>.url remotely, for any provider, so an ssh environment answers with its own URL. open is used on macOS and xdg-open elsewhere.

A missing opener is not a failure. On a headless machine, over SSH, or on Windows — where cwp deliberately ships no opener rather than an untested cmd /c start — it prints the URL and exits 0.

--print writes the URL to stdout and opens nothing. That is the scriptable form, and the one place in this command where stdout carries a payload; it cannot be combined with --json, since both claim stdout, and cwp refuses rather than corrupting one of them.

Example

cwp open                          # the local DDEV URL
cwp open prod                     # the environment's configured url
open "$(cwp open prod --print)"   # on a machine cwp has no opener for

What it does not do

It starts nothing. If DDEV is stopped, cwp open shows you the URL the project will have — ddev start is yours to run.