I'm reading David Turnbull's fantastic Your First Meteor Application. In his book, he uses the JavaScript console in Chrome to explain points, and I'd love to follow along. However, when I try and run http://localhost:3000/ I get the following error:
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
It works perfectly in Firefox and Safari. I'm using a Mac with OS X Yosemite.
I've googled, but nothing suggested on internet works.
localhost is a magic string that should do a local DNS lookup which routes to an IPv4 address of 127.0.0.1 or an IPv6 address of ::1
If you look at your hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc you should see the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
If you're having trouble with the string in some browser (perhaps because of IP address versioning) you can always type in the IP address directly without needing to go through the DNS entry to get there.
So instead of:
http://localhost:3000/
Try using:
http://127.0.0.1:3000/