# Cannot seem to connect on minikube at forwarded port

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787 "2020-08-05T05:53:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![asevans48](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/asevans48/32/243_2.png) [@asevans48](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/asevans48)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787/1 "2020-08-05T05:53:07Z")

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Environment: Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 in Windows 10 (trying airflow as well so WSL2 is a must)

Technologies: PGAdmin4, Minikube, kubectl, helm, Yugabyte (latest version as of August 4, 2020)

I am using the local install instructions at [YugabyteDB Quick start for macOS | YugabyteDB Docs](https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/quick-start/create-local-cluster/kubernetes/)

The pods install and run successfully. I can access the logs and server.

I would like to access my new test/development cluster from PGAdmin4 externally.

Attempt:

1. kubectl --namespace yb-demo port-forward pod/yb-tserver-0 5433:5433
2. kubectl --namespace yb-demo port-forward svc/yb-tserver-service 5433:5433

Attempts were made to reach port 31877 as well.

No matter what I tried, I get the following:

Handling connection for   
E0804 23:47:18.643623 11746 portforward.go:400] an error occurred forwarding 31877 → 31877: error forwarding port to pod 1426128c0c9da1b1e2174f19399ae75740f872061fef686fdf15ccd08cd944eb, uid : exit status 1: 2020/08/05 05:47:18 socat[19321] E connect(5, AF=2 127.0.0.1:, 16): Connection refused

= Port number for the attempt

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![dorian\_yugabyte](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/dorian_yugabyte/32/206_2.png) [@dorian\_yugabyte](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/dorian_yugabyte)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787/2 "2020-08-05T14:00:06Z")

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Hi @asevans48

Can you try this: [Problem with port-forward · Issue #4677 · yugabyte/yugabyte-db · GitHub](https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/issues/4677#issuecomment-638994931) ?

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**Author:** ![asevans48](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/asevans48/32/243_2.png) [@asevans48](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/asevans48)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787/3 "2020-08-06T02:42:09Z")

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@dorian_yugabyte checking now thanks.

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**Author:** ![asevans48](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/asevans48/32/243_2.png) [@asevans48](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/asevans48)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/cannot-seem-to-connect-on-minikube-at-forwarded-port/787/4 "2020-08-06T04:39:50Z")

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Works. Thanks! Now to figure out if I can add persistent storage for my production servers 🙂