Tech Support Guy banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

This site can't be reached

1K views 18 replies 3 participants last post by  Corali 
#1 ·
Hey guys,

we have a problem logging into our wiki website (local server)
when we try to reach our wiki website we all get

"This site can't be reached
xxxx refused to connect."

Now, this server is running on a local machine.
I have the login details for this machine and it is on right now.
I tried the different solutions on google/ youtube, nothing works.
In any case, this error occurs to all of us so I guess all of these local solutions wouldn't help anyway. I assume this is something to do with the server itself.
What should I check or do? I am logged in to the machine as an admin.
I'd appreciate any help.

BTW, I am new to all of it so I don't know much about network/server errors. Apologies for that.

Coral
 
See less See more
#9 ·
Hi,

In the http.conf, the 'Listen' line allows you to specify which port number you want the Apache server to respond to. The protocol 'http' uses ports 80 normally, Lets say your sever ip address is 8.8.8.8 . If you specified Listen 80, then you would be able to connect to your server using 8.8.8.8:80 or simply http://8.8.8.8 .

Since you want to use port 5000, you would make the line 'Listen 5000". Then Apache will respond to 8.8.8.8:5000

However, what concerns me is that you found 3 http.conf files. I wouldn't know which one is the correct one to modify.
 
#10 ·
Hi,
Thanks for your explanation I appreciate that.
The 3 httpd.conf files are located at:
C:\Program Files\EasyPHP3.0\conf_files
C:\Program Files\EasyPHP3.0\apache\conf
C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\conf
but I only found "Listen 81" and not 80.
I changed it to 5000 everywhere I saw 81 but still doesn't work, don't know If I am doing it right...
 
#11 · (Edited by Moderator)
Was it ever successfully connecting at port 5000 ?

Maybe there is a Apache service and it needs to be restarted. Look in services.msc

If there is no service, then find the folder holding 'apachectl ' and use this command 'apachectl -k graceful-stop'

What OS are you running on the server ? Linux ? Windows ?
 
#12 · (Edited)
The machine is running on win XP.
All I know is that when I opened my browser and type "our_machine_name:5000" it would open our wiki page. Not it doesn't work for a week, after a power outage.
I will try what you told me to and update here. Thanks!


EDIT: I cant find the service, so I looked for the file you mentioned but it doesnt exist. I found a lot of folder with the name "apache" thou (if this is related somehow).
 
#13 · (Edited by Moderator)
Do a Windows Explorer search for '5000' . Perhaps it will find your previous configuration

If there are no results. Then do a network scan for that XP's ip address and see what ports are open. If a port is still open.

Disable the XP firewall - the XP is an internal machine right ? IE. no port forwards from the outside to the inside ?
 
#14 ·
Hi,
I am using " Everything". It could not find '5000'.
Windows firewall is disabled.

When you say network scan what do you mean?
I opened CMD and type netstat then I can see what ports its listening to...
our machine is an internal machine and I believe the wiki http page was from the outside
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top