Got it back to work by starting all over.

Here are my* notes/steps:
*)I have gathered all these steps from all the contributers on this site.

Start with a fresh Jessie lite image…

sudo apt-get update
sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install git
cd /home/pi/
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
cd MagicMirror
sudo npm install (This will take 30+ minutes)
sudo apt-get install midori
sudo apt-get install unclutter
sudo aptitude install xinit
sudo apt-get install matchbox
sudo nano /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          startMagicMirror.sh
# Short-Description: startMM
# Description:       starts MM
### END INIT INFO
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 20

sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
unclutter &
midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080

sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo reboot

I have managed to get it working by adjusting the start up script in the etc/init.d/ directory:

Instead of:
cd ~/MagicMirror

I changed it to :
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

Worked great for over 2 week… until I updated MagicMirror, the same error returned…
(Connection refused)

Hi Guy’s, I’m having the same issue here, stuck on midori telling me connection refused…

Im working on a pi zero w with jessie lite