Visual Studio "No connection could be made because target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888"

Question

I tried to run a solution through Visual studio on my local machine. I get the webpage to appear and receive the error on the page: Unable to connect to the remote server No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888

The page that loads is http://localhost:5009/ and when I try localhost:8888 I get "This page can't be displayed"

Thought it might be firewall related so I opened port 8888 but still the issue occurs

someone suggested that this might be an IIS Express issue that Visual Studio 2013 hides but I couldn't find the config for it.

Thanks

Answer 1

I had same problem. It was configuration to point to Fiddler. I removed the fiddler configuration in the web.config file and problem solved.

<defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">
  <proxy autoDetect="false" bypassonlocal="false" proxyaddress="http://127.0.0.1:8888" usesystemdefault="false" />
</defaultProxy>