# Help starting rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 10, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517 "2009-03-10T20:08:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/1 "2009-03-10T20:08:58Z")
I have a weird issue. I can’t start my rails project… I was working on it yesterday, and everything was fine. I came into work today and I can’t boot it up… The server comes up fine when I run ruby script/server, but when I go to my browser and type localhost:3000, I get a can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:3000. I have tried this in FireFox 3, I.E. 7, Chrome, Opera 9.6, Safari(win), I tried switching the port with ruby script/server -p 3001, I have tried restarting my machine. I don’t have any firewalls, haven’t done any updates on any gems. I have have tried using both mongrel and webrick. I can hop into console with ruby script/console in another window, and finding an object will show the queries in the server window. Here is what comes up with each server. C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>ruby script/server webrick =\> Booting WEBrick… =\> Rails 2.1.0 application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options [2009-03-10 11:54:44] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2009-03-10 11:54:44] INFO ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i386-mswin32] [2009-03-10 11:54:44] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=3264 port=3000 [2009-03-10 11:55:42] INFO going to shutdown … [2009-03-10 11:55:42] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done. * * * C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>ruby script/server =\> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) =\> Rails 2.1.0 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) =\> Call with -d to detach =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server \*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 \*\* Starting Rails with development environment… \*\* Rails loaded. \*\* Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins \*\* Signals ready. INT =\> stop (no restart). \*\* Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3000 \*\* Use CTRL-C to stop. * * * C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>rails -v Rails 2.2.2 C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>ver Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] (yes, I know this is an issue, but besides this) C:\rails\_apps\vwd\_login\>gem -v 1.3.1 Any ideas on what I’m missing? Thanks, ~Jeremy ---
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/2 "2009-03-10T20:22:00Z")
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeremy W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have a weird issue. I can’t start my rails project… > > I was working on it yesterday, and everything was fine. I came into work > today and I can’t boot it up… > > The server comes up fine when I run ruby script/server, but when I go to > my browser and type localhost:3000, I get a can’t establish a connection > to the server at localhost:3000. Check that your hosts file doesn’t have any “new” entries added to it since yesterday. I’ve seen spyware prevention apps add stuff in there sometimes. – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/3 "2009-03-10T20:39:39Z")
Greg D. wrote: > Check that your hosts file doesn’t have any “new” entries added to it > since yesterday. I’ve seen spyware prevention apps add stuff in there > sometimes. I checked it, seems it was missing a line… It had, ::1 localhost and I added 127.0.0.1 localhost Still doesn’t work though ☹ Thanks for the idea, any others? ~Jeremy ---
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/4 "2009-03-10T21:04:04Z")
hmm, ok… so it’s working now… kinda… It only works when I have my port set to 80. So, doing ruby script/server -p 80 Why would this be? ---
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/5 "2009-03-11T16:19:06Z")
Tom Z Meinlschmidt wrote: > Jeremy W. wrote: > > > hmm, ok… so it’s working now… kinda… > > > > It only works when I have my port set to 80. > > > > So, doing ruby script/server -p 80 > > > > Why would this be? > > try to add -b 127.0.0.1 for sure… > > script/server -p 3000 -b 127.0.0.1 > > if it doesn’t work, post your netstat table > > t > > # – > > Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache > > # [www.meinlschmidt.com](http://www.meinlschmidt.com) www.maxwellrender.cz www.lightgems.cz ok, so I decided I would try it the normal way before trying your method, and what do you know… it worked… I’m thinking maybe some co-workers messing with me after I leave for the day or something… Anyway, Thanks everyone. This has taught me a big more about trouble shooting a rails app which I don’t know much about 🙂 ~Jeremy ---
**Author:** ![nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@nuby2ruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuby2ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-starting-rails/162517/6 "2009-03-11T01:26:09Z")
Jeremy W. wrote: > hmm, ok… so it’s working now… kinda… > > It only works when I have my port set to 80. > > So, doing ruby script/server -p 80 > > Why would this be? try to add -b 127.0.0.1 for sure… script/server -p 3000 -b 127.0.0.1 if it doesn’t work, post your netstat table t # – Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache # [www.meinlschmidt.com](http://www.meinlschmidt.com) www.maxwellrender.cz www.lightgems.cz