Unable access port 6869

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when i run curl -X POST --header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ --header ‘Accept: application/json’ -d ‘MyApiKey’ ‘http://localhost:6869/utils/hash/secure’ on the server but i keep getting connection refused to open. even after opening the port

2

Check:
cat /etc/hosts

You should have localhost here
127.0.0.1 localhost alias1 alias2…

3

sorry i didn’t get that. will it activate the port?

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No, it will not activate the port. You said the port is open and my guess is your system just does not know that ‘localhost’ is 127.0.0.1

5

okay. how do i make it work

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please show the output of command:
sudo cat /etc/hosts

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127.0.0.1 localhost

The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

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Okay, my guess was wrong. Try to put your real IP address instead of localhost in the command you trying to execute
http://PUT.YOUR.IP.HERE:6869/utils/hash/secure