.dev domains are not working in El Capitan

[jspooner]

I'm getting a connection refused error when trying to access a .dev domain

curl http://app.dev/ --verbose
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connect to 127.0.0.1 port 80 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to app.dev port 80: Connection refused
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to app.dev port 80: Connection refused

I found a similar issue but these solutions did not work. https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/415

[KazW]

I ran into this recently on a new macbook... Turns out I forgot to run one of the daemons: sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/cx.pow.firewall.plist

[attilagyorffy]

@jspooner I'm successfully running pow on El Capitan, version 10.11.5 without any problems. You may need to verify whether the pow daemon is running. A ps aux | grep -i pow might help.

[joshuaswilcox]

I have a similar issue on macOS public beta. They stopped working after the last beta update. It is running:

josh            68434   0.0  0.2  3057584  32188   ??  S     9:21PM   0:00.20 pow

but I get

@Josh ➜  ~ rvm:(ruby-2.1.5)  curl http://admin.ahbwellnessportal.dev --verbose
* Rebuilt URL to: http://admin.ahbwellnessportal.dev/
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connect to 127.0.0.1 port 80 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to admin.ahbwellnessportal.dev port 80: Connection refused
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to admin.ahbwellnessportal.dev port 80: Connection refused

[joshuaswilcox]

Got it working again with:

sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf; sudo pfctl -e

[Loremaster]

@joshuaswilcox Thank you very much for that! It was broken for me and it looks like it happened after upgrading to newer version of El Capitan (10.11.6). This fixed it!

[DarthMike]

Thanks @joshuaswilcox Fixed it for me too!

[bradens]

What is going on here. That fix worked for me but i'd like to know why haha.

[dombarnes]

@bradens running man pfctl kinda answers that pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf is load rules from the given file pfctl -e just enables the packet filter /etc/pf.conf is probably the stock macOS one

[Frank004]

@joshuaswilcox this work for me. great

[alistairholt]

This is getting really annoying to deal with. Does anyone know why it's broken? I'm on macOS 10.12.5. I've tried reinstalling Pow with no success. I have to run sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf; sudo pfctl -e every time I reboot.

[ngoue]

I'm with @alistairholt – not sure what needs to change, but I don't like having to lookup this pfctl command every time I reboot.

[alistairholt]

@ngoue I've since switched to https://github.com/puma/puma-dev.