Re: privoxy refusing connections?
On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
Yes, it does. Does "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would
be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking.
--
Liam
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