JIRA is not able to access itself

[Saransh Tech]

Getting below error message:

This site can’t be reached

localhost refused to connect.

• Search Google for localhost 8080 secure Dashboard

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

My guess is that you have installed Jira on a server and accepted the default base url of "localhost" (This is a default to get you started on that server, not exposed to the outside world).

You are now trying to connect as a client from your machine, and you've put in "localhost".  Localhost always means "this machine", never a remote one.  So your machine is connecting to itself, not your Jira server.

You need to connect to Jira on the server's address, not localhost.  Even if it's just the plain ip address, you need the remote address, not just "self"