Curl : connection refused

Question

I got the following error while running curl:

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8080: Connection refused.

It seems

Answer 1

Try curl -v http://localhost:8080/ instead of 127.0.0.1

Answer 2

Make sure you have a service started and listening on the port.

netstat -ln | grep 8080

and

sudo netstat -tulpn

Answer 3

127.0.0.1 restricts access on every interface on port 8000 except development computer. change it to 0.0.0.0:8000 this will allow connection from curl.