# This site can't be reached

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546
**Category:** General
**Created:** [9 April 2020 19:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546 "2020-04-09T19:13:21Z")
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### Author: ![panafrican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/panafrican/32/19503_2.png) [@panafrican](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/panafrican)
#### Post date: [9 April 2020 19:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546/1 "2020-04-09T19:13:21Z")

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I suddenly can't open Node-RED running on RPi3A+. I have Node-RED as a bookmark with the address 127.0.0.1:1880/#flow/27d1362d.4b7eda. After startup and a little wait, I get these messages when I use the bookmark: "This site can't be reached" "127.0.0.1 refused to connect".

When I try to open Node-RED from the programing menu, I get this error message: "failed to execute child process "xterm" (no such file or directory)".

I have rebooted several times. I don't know Linux well enough to go into the console to troubleshoot this.

Help, what has gone wrong?

This doesn't make much sense to me but out of desperation, I clicked the h274ify Options button on the browser. I didn't change anything, I just wondered what it was. Suddenly node-RED popped up in the browser.

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### Author: ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [9 April 2020 22:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546/2 "2020-04-09T22:31:45Z")

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Have you tried accessing NR from a different machine than the Pi3? You need to know the IP address of the Pi. Let say it is 192.168.1.56, in a browser enter `192.168.1.56:1880` and see if you get into the editor.

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### Author: ![panafrican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/panafrican/32/19503_2.png) [@panafrican](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/panafrican)
#### Post date: [9 April 2020 22:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546/3 "2020-04-09T22:55:22Z")

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In fact I was controlling the headless RPi with Vnc when the problem started. At first I thought it had something to do with Vnc so I rebooted and started control from the RPi itself. I still could not reach 127.0.0.1:1880.

It did not occur to me to try the RPi IP address with :1880 appended to it with Vnc. If the problem recurs, I will try that.

It has been working fine for the last few hours. I probably did something stupid and didn't realize it.

Thanks for helping.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [8 June 2020 22:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/this-site-cant-be-reached/24546/4 "2020-06-08T22:55:24Z")

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