Error: connect ECONNREFUSED for $cordova create

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I am very new to the world of npm and node.js. I am trying to start a phonegap application and upon entering $ cordova create hello com.example.hello HelloWorld

I receive

Downloading cordova library for www... Error: connect ECONNREFUSED at errnoException (net.js:905:11) at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:896:19)

Has anyone had this problem and know a possible solution? I am a n00b so I could be doing something very stupid - any help would be appreciated.

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androidnode.jscordova
Can you post the helloworld code you're trying to run? - Denise Skidmore
O I may be misunderstanding. I think this is supposed to generate a starting project. i.e. "hello" would be the generated folder containing the app with HelloWorld being the app title - elephant
It seems your error is easy to find by Googling - has none of those answers been useful? - verdammelt
Sort of. I entered $phonegap -d create signature-closers com.signatureclosers SignatureClosers which marshut.net/kvqhxw/… recommended. However, I don't think I fully understand the issue or what this is trying to do. After entering this command and rerunning the cordova create command I get a timeout error Error: connect ETIMEDOUT at errnoException (net.js:905:11) at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:896:19) - elephant

1 Answers

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A colleague of mine just had this problem. Looks like he's on a newer version of node than I am (I'm on 0.10.32 and he's on 0.10.35). I assume for this reason, he had a different setting for strict-ssl than I did (his was false, mine is true). So I had him run:

npm config set strict-ssl true

And it solved the problem for him. Hopefully this works for you too.