Visual Studio "No connection could be made because target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888"
<p>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 connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8888</p>

<p>The page that loads is <a href="http://localhost:5009/" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost:5009/</a> and when I try localhost:8888 I get "This page can't be displayed" </p>

<p>Thought it might be firewall related so I opened port 8888 but still the issue occurs</p>

<p>someone suggested that this might be an IIS Express issue that Visual Studio 2013 hides but I couldn't find the config for it. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>