# How to start the ferret server in the production environment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 31, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654 "2009-08-31T06:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654/1 "2009-08-31T06:22:37Z")
I have developed a rails app which used the ferret and acts\_as\_ferret plugin,but I never deployed a rails application,I wonder in the production environment,is it as easy as it is in the development environment?just connect the server with ssh and type “script/ferret\_server -e production start”? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654/2 "2009-08-31T08:58:20Z")
I’m using engineyard cloud computing service,as I expected before,I am facing some problems.After running the start command,the ferret\_server doesn’t seems to start,cause when I stop the ferret\_server it says"ferret\_server doesn’t appear to be running.",and in the ferret\_server.log,it shows “Cannot assign request address - bind(2)”.What can I do now?please help,thanks a lot. 2009 å¹´ 8 31 æ—¥ 12:20 PM在 “刘子嘉” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 提到： I have developed a rails app which used the ferret and acts\_as\_ferret plugin,but I never deployed a rails application,I wonder in the production environment,is it as easy as it is in the development environment?just connect the server with ssh and type “script/ferret\_server -e production start”? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654/3 "2009-08-31T16:54:59Z")
2009/8/30 Áõ×ӼΠ[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > ferret\_server.log,it shows “Cannot assign request address - bind(2)”. So either you’re trying to use a privileged port as a non-privileged user, or that port’s already being used by some other process. If you have sudo rights, you can try starting ferret\_server as root; if that fails, the problem is the second one – find a different port to run on and configure appropriately. – Hassan S. ------------------------ removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid twitter: @hassan ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654/4 "2009-09-01T04:21:13Z")
Thank you for your reply. I have tried to change the port number in config/ferret\_server.yml from 9010(the default) to another number(18275,a random number),and I run: “sudo ruby script/ferret\_server -e production -R [rails\_root] start” ,and the problem is the same. When the port number is 9010,I tried running the command with sudo access,it’s still this problem. The faqs on the engineyard website says “Via sudo you have complete control over your instances.We have sudo configured so that the user you setup has access to sudo without a password being required” as well. I don’t know what to do again. Could you give me some other advice?Thanks in advance. On Aug 31, 10:51 pm, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@SSSSSSSSSS\_SSSSSSSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SSSSSSSSSS_SSSSSSSS)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-start-the-ferret-server-in-the-production-environment/174654/5 "2009-09-10T07:44:55Z")
Hoo~~Ray!!! The problem has been solved! could someone tell me why I have to write ferret\_server.yml like this: … production: host: 127.0.0.1 … neither … production: host: localhost … nor … production: host: [the IP of my instance] … why? It seems that I have make a stupid mistake…and this mistake takes me about 10 days to find the answer… During finding how to solve the problem,I learned something about the port of amazon computing service,see here: [https://cloud-support.engineyard.com/discussions/problems/44-firewalled-ports](https://cloud-support.engineyard.com/discussions/problems/44-firewalled-ports) Before setting the host to 127.0.0.1,I tried this method,but it doesn’t work…may be this will be useful for somebody,so I put the link above. On Aug 31, 10:51 pm, Hassan S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)