Ugh... this is upsetting. I'm trying to access my website... https://alexatilbrook.com... and every browser (Chromium, Firefox, whatever) is spitting out a "connection refused" error!
But it's just this one computer! All other computers on my LAN (I'm using my phone as a hotspot) and it connects just fine...
And any other computer no matter the OS, even my Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu MATE 16.04, the same OS (but the laptop is running the amd64 variant) accesses alexatilbrook.com just fine. I even tried using another WiFi network to access my site at the local public library... same "err_connection_refused" message.
I've tried searching the Ubuntu MATE community (which I thank y'all for--sorry, I'm in the American Midwest) and Google to no avail.
I'm at my last end. This site I mentioned above is a labor of love for me and I just don't know why it's happening. It's a WordPress.com hosted site... and I can access WordPress.com and other WordPress.com-hosted sites just fine. It's just my website I can't access.
Hm, that is weird alright.
'Connection Refused' looks like either your local firewall, your router or the server hosting your site is dropping the connection.
What do you get when you click "details" in the various browsers?
Can you download the webpage fine using a command line tool?
First, @ouroumov has an excellent suggestion. What that command gets may tell a lot.
I just have a quick thought. Do you remember ever working on your site, when it wasn’t public for example, and pointing to another address? You may have modified /etc/hosts to do this so that laptop doesn’t go to the right address now.
If you change your DNS (Google, OpenDNS) in the network settings you can get access?
I once had a problem located with an unavailable site, found checking through the commands:
traceroute [ip/web-site url]
mtr [ip/web-site url]
Checking the route and Ping can be helpful in case it was a problem in my ISP. As soon as I found out they corrected a problem with the route. And I didn't even imagine it could be that hehe
