No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (Django)

Question

I have followed the Django Book up until chapter seven, and I am currently messing around with forms, GET, POST and all that goodness. At one point, the guide made me figure out

Answer 1

10061 isn't the port number, that's the error number. You want to open port 8000.

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