unable to connect to Cloudant db

[kalpansheth]

on my local machine, can still not connect to cloudant db

Connecting to cloudant
Unable to connect to database

I have the server up and running. in the cloudant.properties file I put in the URL with and without double quotes and either ways still get the above error. Yes, I did re-start after i made and saved the url changes. where would i get more info about the error?

app on cloud successfully connects.