[build] ERROR: Sonar server 'http://localhost:9000' can not be reached

when running the following command: cmd /c C:\sonar-runner-2.4\bin\sonar-runner.bat

(sonar runner is installed on the build machine) i get the following errors:
ERROR: Sonar server 'http://localhost:9000' can not be reached
ERROR: Error during Sonar runner execution
ERROR: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
ERROR: Caused by: Connection refused: connect

what can cause these errors?

Hi dinesh,

this is my sonar-runner.properties file:

sonar.projectKey=NDM
sonar.projectName=NDM
sonar.projectVersion=1.0

sonar.visualstudio.solution=NDM.sln

#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
sonar.web.host:sonarqube
sonar.web.port=9000

# Enable the Visual Studio bootstrapper
sonar.visualstudio.enable=true

# Unit Test Results
sonar.cs.vstest.reportsPaths=TestResults/*.trx

# Required only when using SonarQube < 4.2
sonar.language=cs

sonar.sources=.

As you can see i set the sonar.web.host:sonarqube sonar.web.port=9000 but when i run sonar-runner.bat i still get the
ERROR: Sonar server 'http://localhost:9000' can not be reached - why is it still looking for localhost:9000
and not sonarqube:9000 as i set?

i saw that in the log of sonar-runner.bat there the following line: INFO: Work directory: D:\sTFS\26091\Sources\NDM\Source..sonar

while my solution is in D:\sTFS\26091\Sources\NDM\Source\

could this be the problem?

thanks, Guy

If you use SonarScanner CLI with Docker, you may have this error because the SonarScanner container can not access to the Sonar UI container.

Note that you will have the same error with a simple curl from another container:

docker run --rm byrnedo/alpine-curl 127.0.0.1:9000
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 8080: Connection refused

The solution is to connect the SonarScanner container to the same docker network of your sonar instance, for instance with --network=host:

docker run --network=host -e SONAR_HOST_URL='http://127.0.0.1:9000' --user="$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v "$PWD:/usr/src" sonarsource/sonar-scanner-cli

(other parameters of this command comes from the SonarScanner CLI documentation)

I got the same issue, and I changed to IP and it working well

Go to System References --> Network --> Advanced --> Open TCP/IP tabs --> copy the IPv4 Address.

change that IP instead localhost

Hope this can help

For others who ran into this issue in a project that is not using a sonar-runners.property file, you may find (as I did) that you need to tweak your pom.xml file, adding a sonar.host.url property.

For example, I needed to add the following line under the 'properties' element:

<sonar.host.url>https://sonar.my-internal-company-domain.net</sonar.host.url>

Where the url points to our internal sonar deployment.

Please check if postgres(or any other database service) is running properly.

When you allow the 9000 port to firewall on your desired operating System the following error "ERROR: Sonar server 'http://localhost:9000' can not be reached" will remove successfully.In ubuntu it is just like as by typing the following command in terminal "sudo ufw allow 9000/tcp" this error will removed from the Jenkins server by clicking on build now in jenkins.

You should configure the sonar-runner to use your existing SonarQube server. To do so, you need to update its conf/sonar-runner.properties file and specify the SonarQube server URL, username, password, and JDBC URL as well. See https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Scanner for details.

If you don't yet have an up and running SonarQube server, then you can launch one locally (with the default configuration) - it will bind to http://localhost:9000 and work with the default sonar-runner configuration. See https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/setup/get-started-2-minutes/ for details on how to get started with the SonarQube server.

For me the issue was that the maven sonar plugin was using proxy servers defined in the maven settings.xml. I was trying to access the sonarque on another (not localhost alias) and so it was trying to use the proxy server to access it. Just added my alias to nonProxyHosts in settings.xml and it is working now. I did not face this issue in maven sonar plugin 3.2, only after i upgraded it.

<proxy>
  <id>proxy_id</id>
  <active>true</active>
  <protocol>http</protocol>
  <host>your-proxy-host/host>
  <port>your-proxy-host</port>
  <nonProxyHosts>localhost|127.0.*|other-non-proxy-hosts</nonProxyHosts>
</proxy>enter code here

In sonar.properties file in conf folder I had hardcoaded ip of my machine where sobarqube was installed in property sonar.web.host=10.9 235.22 I commented this and it started working for me.

In the config file there is a colon instead of an equal sign after the sonar.web.host.

Is:

sonar.web.host:sonarqube

Should be

sonar.web.host=sonarqube