Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it
> >
> > sudo apt-get install privoxy
> >
> > And configured my browser to use the proxy at
> > 127.0.0.1 port 8118
> >
> > I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"
> >
> > I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and
> > the config file has a line:
> > listen-address  localhost:8118
> >
> > Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kailash
> Are you sure that privoxy is running?
Here's the output from ps.
$ps -ax | grep privoxy
 1601 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile 
/var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.

Thanks,
Kailash