Android ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED when running http://127.0.0.1

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Hi - I am running an ionic 4 app and need to change my server url to a local ip address in order for a widget to work (intercom requires app to be run on ip address rather than localhost).

So, I added the following to my capacitor.config.json.

  "server": {
    "url": "http://127.0.0.1"
  }

This works for iOS (when I use capacitor://127.0.0.1) but for android (on the emulator), I get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED when loading the app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have tried adding the below to my config.xml but that did not work.

<allow-navigation href="http://127.0.0.1/*"/>
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Instead of setting the “url”, set the “hostname” to “127.0.0.1”

3

@jcesarmobile this works great! thank you!

do you know if there is any way to make these specific per platform? seems like ios needs url to be http://127.0.0.1 while android needs url to be 127.0.0.1.

I know I can change these manually on each platform, but would prefer to use something built in if possible. I tried adding the platform specific server under “ios” and “android” properties but that did not read them in at all.

Thanks for your help!

4

It’s not possible, but what you say sounds very weird.
By setting the hostname to “127.0.0.1” the app should load capacitor://127.0.0.1 for iOS and http://127.0.0.1 for Android.

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@jcesarmobile you’re right - works to just have the hostname set to 127.0.0.1 for both ios and android.

Thanks so much!

6

Thank you so much! This works for me!

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Thank you so much! This works for me! After a long struggle finally got to the correct place. Really appreciate you guys.