# \[Verba\] On sending message: "Couldn't connect to Weaviate, check your URL/API KEY"

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-on-sending-message-couldnt-connect-to-weaviate-check-your-url-api-key/9062>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 3, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-on-sending-message-couldnt-connect-to-weaviate-check-your-url-api-key/9062 "2024-12-03T02:12:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![e-p-armstrong](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/e-p-armstrong/32/3086_2.png) [@e-p-armstrong](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/e-p-armstrong)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-on-sending-message-couldnt-connect-to-weaviate-check-your-url-api-key/9062/1 "2024-12-03T02:12:33Z")

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### Description

## Description

I am running into inconsistent errors regarding not being able to connect to weaviate. This is when I am attempting to run locally with Ollama. The error only appears occasionally; often, regenerating the message will be enough to fix it, but it is occurring very often and is quite annoying:

```auto
INFO: 127.0.0.1:61907 - "POST /api/get_suggestions HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
✔ Received query: somequery
✔ Connecting new Client
ℹ Connecting to Weaviate Embedded
✘ Couldn't connect to Weaviate, check your URL/API KEY: Embedded DB did
not start because processes are already listening on ports http:8079 and
grpc:50050use weaviate.connect_to_local(port=8079, grpc_port=50050) to connect
to the existing instance
⚠ Query failed: Couldn't connect to Weaviate, check your URL/API KEY:
Embedded DB did not start because processes are already listening on ports
http:8079 and grpc:50050use weaviate.connect_to_local(port=8079,
grpc_port=50050) to connect to the existing instance
INFO: 127.0.0.1:61898 - "POST /api/query HTTP/1.1" 200 OK
✔ Succesfully Connected to Weaviate

```

(I can’t embed multiple things in a post here so here’s a link to the github issue I am mostly crossposting this from: ["Couldn't connect to Weaviate, check your URL/API KEY" · Issue #335 · weaviate/Verba · GitHub](https://github.com/weaviate/Verba/issues/335))

So I don’t know why this is failing sometimes and succeeding others:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/weaviate/original/2X/7/7ff44fdbd1745fc43ee289239086283f86091485.png)  
^ Example of two failed tries and one success, the only difference between them being the time of the submission

## Installation

- [x] pip install goldenverba
- pip install from source
- Docker installation

If you installed via pip, please specify the version:

Python version? 3.11  
package version? Whatever’s latest on pip

## Weaviate Deployment

- [x] Local Deployment
- Docker Deployment
- Cloud Deployment

## Configuration

Reader: ?  
Chunker: ?  
Embedder: Ollama (nomic embed text)  
Retriever: Advanced  
Generator: Ollama (custom finetuned llama 3)

## Steps to Reproduce

Pip install;  
Run both embedding and generator with ollama  
Upload 47 .md documents  
chat a few times  
experience issue

## Additional context

For some reason Verba does not seem to be working when offline either, even though I assume local deployment is just that – local. What’s going on and how do I force this to 1) run locally and 2) correctly connect to the server so I don’t get this issue? I’ll make a separate post for true local running issues if need be, I put the full traceback for the second issue (not being able to run `local` offline) in a gist so that it doesn’t clutter this post up needlessly: [offline\_run\_attempt · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/e-p-armstrong/8b3531deba90070f3098bab6a31565f2)

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-on-sending-message-couldnt-connect-to-weaviate-check-your-url-api-key/9062/2 "2024-12-03T12:49:09Z")

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hi @e-p-armstrong !! Welcome to our community 🤗

Considering the error message, it seems that there you have another weaviate embedded running before starting Verba.

if you run:

```shell
ps aux | grep weaviate

```

you should see a running weaviate server. You need to kill that PID before starting verba, otherwise you will run in to this issue.

Let me know if I can assist you further on this.

Thanks!