git cannot clone or push? failed to connect, connection refused

Problem

After git push -u origin master I got:

fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/xxxx/xxxx.git’: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8087: Connection refused

same error happen when I try to clone others repo.

port 8087 doesn’t seem to be busy. What could go wrong?

edit: when I do clone from git:// instead of https://, it works just fine.

Solution

This happens because a proxy is configured in git.

Since it’s https proxy (and not http) git config http.proxy and git config --global http.proxy can’t help.

1 : take a look at your git configuration
git config --global -l
If you have nothing related to https proxy like https_proxy=… the problem is not here.

If you have something related to https proxy then remove it from the file ~/.gitconfig and try again

2 : if it still doesn’t work, unset environment variables
Check your environment variables :

env|grep -i proxy
You should have one or several lines with https_proxy=…

Unset one by one with : unset https_proxy (or HTTPS_PROXY depending of the name of the variable)

3 : check environment variables again
env|grep -i proxy

If it shows nothing you should be good.

Note : This solution can applies to http and https proxy problems. just the variables name changes from https to http