Problems with fabric deployment

Question

Im using the fab script from here. fab deploy throws an error at right after creating the application. The error is:

Fatal error: Low level socket error connecting to host username.webfactional.com: Connection refused (tried 1 time)

Underlying exception:
    Connection refused

I have seen this answer, but I have ssh running on my machine.

Answer 1

The root cause of the issue ended up being use of port within the code.

The bug report is here, and the fix is here