Unable to open with Google Chrome

[Charlie Berg]

I am a newbee and I have Server installed successfully and browser changed to ‘Chrome’. When trying to open with Chrome, I get the message’new generic top level domain’ and chrome won’t open the .dev website.
Can’t seem to find anyone else with this issue.

[Gregg]

Hello Charlie,

Are you able to open your created website with another browser, Firefox, Safari?

[Charlie Berg]

Gregg,
Thanks. No, I tried Firefox and it won’t allow me to open either.

[Danny Franklin]

I am a newbee too. I installed ServerPress v3.8.0 today on XP, but I can’t open the dev website or the localhost. Attached is a screenshot of the error message I received for both the dev site and the localhost.

[Charlie Berg]

Danny,
I had the same problem and found that when installing ServerPress it did not write to the ‘host’ file (with Vista I found the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ hosts)
To open the file:
1)Click Start button , click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Notepad, and then click Run as administrator
2)Use Notepad to browse for the file: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ hosts
3) change to ‘All Files’ and you should see the contents of the hosts file
4) The bottom portion of mine looked like:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
5)I then added 2 lines for the website I created (website1test.dev) and it looked like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 website1test.dev
127.0.0.1 http://www.website1test.dev
6) Apparently your browser looks at this file before it goes out to find an address. 127.0.0.1 is your PC, so the browser will then look for the website you created on your PC first.
7)Save the file in Notepad and then try finding your site again with your browser

Hope I haven’t skipped anything, but this finally worked for me. I’m sure someone else can give a better explanation.
Hope this helps.
Charlie

[Danny Franklin]

Charlie,
Thanks. Unfortunately in my case ServerPress did write to the host file and even made a backup (hosts.ds_backup).

My host file (before ServerPress) contained only the following at the bottom:

127.0.0.1 localhost

After the ServerPress install it contained the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost

### Begin DesktopServer – do not edit this and proceeding lines ###
127.0.0.1 http://www.kevs.dev
### End DesktopServer – do not edit this and preceeding lines ###

Hopefully the fix for this CONNECTION_REFUSED issue is something else as easy as editing the host file.
Danny

[Gregg]

Hello Danny,

Please try the following steps

Open DesktopServer
Select the first option “Stop or restart the web and database services.” [ Next > ]
Select “Restart the web and database services.” [ Next > ]
[ Next > ]

Visit website

Please let us know if this does not resolve the issue by opening a new ticket.

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