title: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it (Django)
body: <p>I have followed the <a href="http://www.djangobook.com" rel="noreferrer">Django Book</a> up until chapter seven, and I am currently messing around with forms, GET, POST and all that goodness. At one point, the guide made me figure out the reaction, after a form is filled out and sent, but when I send the form data, I get this error:</p>
  
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  error at /contact/
  [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused itRequest Method: POST
  Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/contact/
  Django Version: 1.3
  Exception Type: error
  Exception Value:    [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
  Exception Location: C:\Python27\lib\socket.py in create_connection, line 571
  Python Executable:  C:\Python27\python.exe
  Python Version: 2.7.2
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  <p>In other words, I haven’t had any port problems up until this point. I just opened port 10061 explicitly in Windows Firewall but to no avail by the look of it. (I closed and opened the <code>runserver</code>, after I had changed the rules.)</p>
  
  <p>I am running Windows 7, and the gist of my question is what exactly this error message means more so than how to deal with it (both are preferable, of course).</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> I have also forwarded port 8000 in Windows Firewall (apply to all profiles, TCP), but I still get what looks like the same error.</p>