# Can't Access Mongrel on Vista **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 5, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-access-mongrel-on-vista/175009 "2009-09-05T18:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![prasanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@prasanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prasanna)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-access-mongrel-on-vista/175009/1 "2009-09-05T18:34:18Z")
Hello, I am new to developing in Rails. I created a rails project using ‘rails mydiary’. Used ‘ruby script/generate scaffold Entry title:string content:text’ to generate scaffolding for the entry table. Did ‘rake db:migrate’ to create the entry table. Then ran ‘ruby script/server’. All of this worked. I get the message ‘Rails 2.3.3 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)’. But when I go to ‘[http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)’ on FireFox I get a ‘can’t establish connection to server’ error. I tried IE but this did not also work. I looked at the ‘server.log’ file under the ‘log’ folder. This file is blank. Any ideas on what I can try? Thanks, Prasanna ---
**Author:** ![prasanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@prasanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prasanna)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-access-mongrel-on-vista/175009/2 "2009-09-05T19:19:06Z")
On Sep 5, 5:34 pm, Prasanna P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > establish connection to server’ error. I tried IE but this did not also > work. 0.0.0.0 is not a valid ip address. When mongrel etc says it is listening on 0.0.0.0 that is merely shorthand for ‘i am listening on all the ip addresses that this machine has’. Pick anyone of those (eg 127.0.0.1) and you should be ok. Fred