Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

Anyone? :(

I think you're experiencing the same as in this thread:

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/testing/installing-laravel-dusk-failed-to-connect-on-localhost-port-9515-connection-refused

This seems to be for ubuntu. Sorry I forgot to say I am using WSL on Windows

I ran into this problem today and what fixed it was opening Chrome, then closing it. I don't know why this works, it seems to have something to do with making an update complete, but I got the suggestion from this thread:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42040362/laravel-dusk-error-failed-to-connect-to-localhost-port-9515-connection-refused

I also encountered the same problem on current macOS. Suddenly connecting to localhost fails, but remote hosts still can be connected too. Any solution? I already re-installed Dusk, and also updated Chrome.

Error message:

   PHPUnit\Framework\ExceptionWrapper 

  Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {"capabilities":{"firstMatch":[{"browserName":"chrome","goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080","--disable-gpu"]}}]},"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1920,1080","--disable-gpu"]}}}

Failed to connect to localhost port 9515 after 0 ms: Couldn't connect to server

  at vendor/php-webdriver/webdriver/lib/Remote/HttpCommandExecutor.php:346
    342▕             if (is_array($params) && !empty($params)) {
    343▕                 $msg .= sprintf(' with params: %s', json_encode($params, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES));
    344▕             }
    345▕ 
  ➜ 346▕             throw new WebDriverCurlException($msg . "\n\n" . $error);
    347▕         }
    348▕ 
    349▕         $results = json_decode($raw_results, true);
    350▕ 



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