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Raghavendra
Raghavendra

Reputation: 4008

Phonegap - Unable to download archive from the server

I am trying to run the phone gap application from my Phonegap Developer app. But getting error "Unable to download archive from the server". I am connecting to the ip address which is shown in Phone gap Desktop application.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3429

Answers (3)

Sandi Laufenberg-Deku
Sandi Laufenberg-Deku

Reputation: 582

I had the same problem... I could run the templates that came with PhoneGap Desktop just fine. But my big app that I had built with PhoneGap 1.3 would not run on the iPhone nor Android. It crashed the PhoneGap Developer on Android, and just kept trying to Download forever on the iPhone. I tried everything that I could find. Finally I decided to change the port from 3000 to 4000. It worked!

Upvotes: 2

Hari Das
Hari Das

Reputation: 10864

I was facing the same issue but fixed the problem with following:

  1. My phone and laptop were not connected to same wifi. Later I realized this and connected them to same wifi. So check it first.
  2. Then the next mistake I was doing is the ip address. When I typed phonegap serve it was actually showing 3 different ip addresses where the app is listening. Out of them one is the ip address of the wireless adapter.

Instead of using the wireless adapter IP, I was using the Ethernet adapter IP. So, if you are connected to wireless, first type ipconfig (in windows) and check the wireless adapter IP and use that. It should work.

Upvotes: 1

Raghavendra
Raghavendra

Reputation: 4008

The PhoneGap desktop app showed the message "Server is running on http://192.168.56.1:3000," so I entered that IP address in the mobile app. This didn't work because my computer is behind a router.

I ran ipconfig from the command line (in Windows) and I saw the following line:

 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.10

So I entered 10.0.0.10:3000 instead of the public IP address, and it worked.

Upvotes: 10

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