Whenever I run grunt server to display a course, the course never renders. It tells me localhost connection is refused.
I'm able to start a server with gulp and view the course just fine, and I can start a server with MAMP and view the course. But I'm curious why the grunt server is not working. I have tried changing the port, but no luck. I've tried different browsers. I've included a screen shot of the error.
Any ideas?
Do gulp or MAMP also use localhost as the domain name when creating a server or something different? If something different then it's likely to be something in the configuration of your computer that's blocking access to localhost.
When running $ grunt server you could try changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 (the loopback address) or your computer's IP address.
Yes, gulp uses localhost. MAMP is actually MAMP pro so it allows you to define a name for the server.
Great thought on using the loopback address. The course will display using that. I would like to understand why, but at least it is working.
Yes that's very odd, I can't think of any obvious reason why that would work in gulp and not grunt server.
I tend to just use browser-sync myself as it gives you loads of options that aren't available in grunt server.