{"id":3991,"date":"2026-01-09T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:09:04","slug":"spire-error-server-actively-refused-the-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Spire error server actively refused the connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seen this error a few times since v3.18 mostly on new installs<br>the server actively refused the connection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work around:<br>add the server in the format <br>word-word-####.spirelan.com<strong>:10880<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for some reason adding the tcp port on the end works better<br>if it&#8217;s already in your server list with the port #, delete it out and add it again.<br>please stop telling me &#8220;we never used to need this&#8221;  and &#8220;what changed&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unrelated error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use the server IP address or a different DNS name to reach the server you will get the error<br>SSL certificate verification failed.<br>Your connection to this server may not be secure.<br>= Ignore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but this is due to the certificate being bound to the spirelan.com dns name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen this error a few times since v3.18 mostly on new installsthe server actively refused the connection Work around:add the server in the format word-word-####.spirelan.com:10880 for some reason adding the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-spire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}