Intermittent failures “localhost refused to connect”

  • Resolved Bunkermentality

    (@bunkermentality)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve just installed Webmatrix 3 ver 7.1.1934.0 onto my Win10 Home system, ver 10.0.15063. Using Webmatrix I successfully created a WordPress instance and copied one of my server-side WordPress pages onto this. All is good.

    But, after using WordPress for a few minutes (how many minutes varies) everything stops and Google Chrome reports “localhost refused to connect” and “ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED”.

    Once “localhost refused to connect” has been displayed F5 refreshes do not cause the page to re display. However as soon as WebMatrix is powered up for the WP website the fault disappears, even though I don’t actually do anything with WebMatrix.

    I posted this issue on https://forums.iis.net and received the advice

    “It is hard to say why webmatrix help fix this issue. If you meet the error message again, you could try to change the port number for the localhost url. I’m not sure whether it is a pure IIS issue. If this is still not working, you could consult the wordpress forum while I notice err_connection_refused is always displayed with wordpress.”

    Changing the port number doesn’t help, especially as the connection works fine for a while.

    I’m very new to hosting WP on my local IIS ver 8 environment. Have I made some sort of basic error? Any advice would be most welcome.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    If it’s intermittent, it’s likely that your MySQL server is either crashing or hitting some overload condition. It’s not a WordPress problem and is best pursued in the webmatrix support forums. Whatever is happening is probably logged. Good luck.

    Port CAN be a problem because I have the experience when something (a cli, server, etc) works for a while but after minutes, it fails because something else grabs the port.

    Thread Starter Bunkermentality

    (@bunkermentality)

    I have discovered that the connection error does not happen provided that WebMatrix remains active. I can’t see why this should be the case but as a workaround it does the trick.

    Great.

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