"Could not connect to LiveReload server."

[eramdam]

When I try to connect guard-livereload to the LiveReload Chrome extension I get this error in Chrome. I'm under Mac OS 10.9.3 with Ruby 2.0.0-p247 using rbenv.

Could not connect to LiveReload server. Please make sure that LiveReload 2.3 (or later) or another compatible server is running.

Here is the content of my Guardfile

guard 'jekyll-plus', :serve => true, :drafts => true do
  watch /.*/
  ignore /^_site/
end

guard 'livereload' do
  watch /.*/
end

And this is the output of guard in the terminal

WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
      rb-inotify (>= 0.9)
      rb-kqueue (>= 0.2)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
15:17:18 - INFO - Guard here! It looks like your project has a Gemfile, yet you are running
> [#] `guard` outside of Bundler. If this is your intent, feel free to ignore this
> [#] message. Otherwise, consider using `bundle exec guard` to ensure your
> [#] dependencies are loaded correctly.
> [#] (You can run `guard` with --no-bundler-warning to get rid of this message.)
Configuration file: _config.yml
15:17:19 - INFO - Guard is using  to send notifications.
15:17:19 - INFO - Jekyll building...
    Server address: http://0.0.0.0:4000
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
15:17:26 - INFO - Jekyll build complete ./ → _site
15:17:26 - INFO - Jekyll watching and serving at 0.0.0.0:4000/
15:17:26 - INFO - LiveReload is waiting for a browser to connect.
15:17:26 - INFO - Guard is now watching at '/Users/Damien/Documents/LBSRF'
[1] guard(main)> 15:17:28 - INFO - Browser connected.
15:17:28 - INFO - Browser disconnected.

[thibaudgg]

Weird because there's 15:17:28 - INFO - Browser connected., are you using the last version of the LiveReload chrome extension?

[eramdam]

@thibaudgg Yeah, I use the Web Store version (2.0.9), is this really the last version ? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/livereload/jnihajbhpnppcggbcgedagnkighmdlei

[thibaudgg]

Hmm, what the url of your assets in your browser? Because with watch /.*/ guard-livereload will send the local path to the browser, maybe guard-jekyll-plus is serving something different.

[eramdam]

The assets got link without http at the beginning (things like "/images/image.png"). If you wanna try on my projet, you can clone http://github.com/eramdam/LBSRF and try for yourself, as I'm a complete noob in Ruby/Guard 😁

[thibaudgg]

Sadly I haven't much time this week, maybe you could try to ask on support@livereload.com, thanks!

[eramdam]

Don't worry, I can wait ;)

[alexpchin]

Any solution to this issue?

[thibaudgg]

@alexpchin no idea, please try to contact support@livereload.com.

[tristil]

For others with this problem try changing the host to '127.0.0.1' I also had to upgrade to the most recent version or there would be an error when it actually tried to connect.

[phyllisstein]

@tristil That did the trick for me—thanks so much for the tip!

[jrodl3r]

While testing out Grunt operations, livereload servers were started and (assumedly) stopped consecutively 5 of 6 times - Then this issue started happening. I tried all the posted solutions to resolve and even saw them still running as node commands using: lsof -iTCP:35729. Ultimately, the only thing that worked for me was to close and relaunch the terminal app (iTerm2).

[volkanunsal]

Same thing is happening for me. I also see an error in the console:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://0.0.0.0:35729/livereload' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

This started happening after I tried out a Node project that uses tiny-lr to watch for changes in the file system. After using that, Node processes are able to watch for changes but Ruby processes are not able to anymore.

[amites]

I'm getting this error as of a couple days ago

host was already defined as '127.0.0.1'

12:13:36 - INFO - LiveReload is waiting for a browser to connect.
12:13:38 - INFO - Browser connected.
12:13:38 - INFO - Browser disconnected.

same in browser pop-up error

[amites]

when I add the livereload js to the browser it outputs the following in console

GET http://localhost:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1 net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE 

and guard doesn't report any attempts to connect

hoping someone with more Ruby experience can take a stab at this 👍

[amites]

tinkering with this a bit more seems similar to issues #37

the following was run after try to connect with a browser -- IP has been defined as 127.0.0.1

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 35729
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

this comes back when I restart the server and connect with telnet first

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 35729
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.

uggg...

[volkanunsal]

I switched to using gulp-livereload. It works pretty well. This is my Gulpfile, in case anyone is interested.

[exlee]

I'm experiencing the same problem using Ruby 2.1.1 with RVM on OSX 10.9.5. Both Firefox and Chrome show this issue. I've noticed that after initial connection port closes.

Tried connecting both through 'localhost' as well as through IP127.0.0.1.

[podo]

Any progress with this issue? I have the same problem.

[amites]

there are numerous reports of this same issue, yet you closed it without any notice of an update or request for testing?

come on.... poor project management 👎

[volkanunsal]

@eramdam isn't the project owner. He probably wanted to stop the notifications coming from this issue, not to close it. He should have unsubscribed from it instead.

[jasperf]

Having the same issue now
WebSocket connection to 'ws://127.0.0.1:35729/livereload' failed: Error in connection
establishment:net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Using a local virtualhost file to load the site under site.local. Really want to keep on using it instead of 127.0.0.1 ..

[ghost]

changing 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 solved the issue for me try it

[njt1982]

the localhost thing did not fix it for me:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://127.0.0.1:35729/livereload' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I also get:

GET http://127.0.0.1:35729/livereload.js?ext=Chrome&extver=2.1.0 net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

[e2]

If anyone here is having connection issues, I urge you to first try: #150

and let me know if work (or not!).

[njt1982]

@e2 Tried it - didn't work, see coments in #150.

[njt1982]

I can confirm that #150 is much better now I am running a decent version of Ruby ;)

[Klass-A]

It could be that you have a new setup and haven't installed Livereload extension in your Text Editor.
Had the same issue, but solved my problem by installing Livereload in Sublime.