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 con

Answer 1

I know this is old but I would like to share what did to resolve this problem. I found out that the cause of this is from the Internet Explorer's Proxy connection is enabled.

You can go to IE > Settings > Internet Options

Then Internet Options dialog will open.

Go to Connections tab and look for LAN settings.

From there, if you see the "Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections)." checked, uncheck it and press OK.

then that error will be removed.

I hope this helps on other readers experiencing this kind of issue.