Could not connect to host (http://127.0.0.1:18083/)

If you have just updated phpVirtualBox, don't forget to clear your
browser's cache!!!

Please see the Common Errors and Issues wiki page located at
http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/CommonErrors before posting
here.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.As a url enter http://<localhost>:85/phpvirtualbox
2.Login
3.Error popsup

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see the virtualbox screen to manage my VMs.
Instead I see a popup error showing Could not connect to host 
(http://127.0.0.1:18083/) then when clicking on details it shows:
Exception Object
(
[messagerotected] => Could not connect to host (http://127.0.0.1:18083/)
[string:Exceptionrivate] =>
[coderotected] => 64
[filerotected] => /var/www/phpvirtualbox/lib/ajax.php
[linerotected] => 128
[trace:Exceptionrivate] => Array
(
)

[previous:Exceptionrivate] =>
)

What version of phpVirtualBox, VirtualBox, and PHP are you using? On what
operating system?
phpvirtualbox 4.3.1
virtualbox-4.3_4.3.16-95972~Ubuntu~raring_amd64.deb
Ubuntu Server 14.04

Please provide any additional information below.

Please see: 
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/549174/issue-connecting-to-virtualbox/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Allen.Na...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2014 at 8:13

dgzyk / phpvirtualbox

Could not connect to host (http://127.0.0.1:18083/) #728