[SWLUG] How do I find the reason for a website refusing to connect

[Terry John]

"Connection refused" is what you get if the server isn't listing on port
80 for a normal web site. Quite likely the web services are not running.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk [mailto:discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of Neil Jones
Sent: 19 July 2004 09:50
To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
Subject: [SWLUG] How do I find the reason for a website refusing to
connect


Hi everybody,

A website belonging to an American charity is not working. I am getting
a "connection was refused when attemting to contact ...." message from
Epiphany and Konqueror says Could not connect to host. I can ping the
address quite sucessfully.

Since I am invoved with a UK equivalent of the American Charity I would
like 
to offer them some diagnostic advice. 

Any ideas what could be causing this and what if any diagnostic tools I
could 
simply use from this end to find out what is the matter.

--
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.butterflyguy.com/ "At
some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve.


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