# Google Earth/Map API key problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432 "2008-11-29T13:36:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/icewoman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432/1 "2008-11-29T13:36:48Z")
I’m trying to have my Rails app create a web page showing the Google Earth API. I’ve been having some problems with it, but finally got the window to come up by putting all the javascript code in as a javascript\_tag in my rhtml… Now I keep getting the an error that my key is registered for a different website… Even though I’ve created new keys for “localhost:3000” and my production website. Anyone know what might be the problem? I saw a previous potentially relevant posting that talked about routing, but I’m thinking that they key is supposed to work for ANY page served off that site? Thanks for any help you can provide! -Lisa ---
**Author:** ![icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/icewoman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432/2 "2008-11-29T18:40:50Z")
Just a thought, but I suspect that you’re not going to be able to use the API locally without that error message. Although your computer calls itself “localhost”, from Google’s end your computer is most likely just an IP address (no reverse DNS set up), or something like lisas-computer.wireless.ualberta.ca (for example, what your computer might resolve to on campus at my university). The API documentation might say something about how to run it locally without error? -Brady ---
**Author:** ![icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/icewoman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432/3 "2008-11-29T20:55:46Z")
Thanks for the suggestion! You could be right about the local run, although some of the earlier posts talked about getting a key for “localhost.” Unfortunately, I’m having the same problem with my production web site. Also, if one has an ordinary html web page, google doesn’t seem to look at the key when it’s on the computer. One more detail that could be relevant: if I view source and then save the results to an html file, that works fine on my machine, but not if I put the one with the production site’s key in the public directory within my rails app on the production site. So it really seems that google is seeing the rails app as something other than the url it’s on. -Lisa ---
**Author:** ![icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/icewoman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432/4 "2008-11-30T19:28:41Z")
I’m not completely sure what I did to fix this, but I started from scratch with the sample map provided with the key, and it works now on my local machine. One possibility is that the scripts were outside the head in some of my attempts. Although that doesn’t quite explain the reason the saved html version worked, so I think there were multiple issues. ---
**Author:** ![icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/85f322/32.png) [@icewoman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/icewoman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-earth-map-api-key-problem/154432/5 "2008-11-30T20:39:25Z")
One more trick: don’t try to use a rails command for the key. Just put the keyfile info in the header as it appears in your sample code (as modified for Google Earth API vs. maps.)