# Moving my app with instant rails to another machine

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-my-app-with-instant-rails-to-another-machine/121370>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 27, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-my-app-with-instant-rails-to-another-machine/121370 "2007-11-27T11:12:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vijay\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c77e96/32.png) [@Vijay\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vijay_Rao)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-my-app-with-instant-rails-to-another-machine/121370/1 "2007-11-27T11:12:24Z")

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Hello,

I am doing a poor man’s equivalent of deploying. I had Instant rails on  
my  
laptop with mysql and the whole shebang. I now want to show my work to  
my  
professor and I am not looking to do a “production deployment”.

I tried moving my entire instant rails folder into a machine that has an  
IP  
exposed outside. However when I start mongrel it says listening at  
localhost  
or 0.0.0.0:3000.

I am not able to hit it from outside.

Is this a regular “port not open check firewall” issue or is there a  
setting  
in mongrel that tells it that it is not just serving localhost anymore?

Thanks  
Vijay

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**Author:** ![Vijay\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c77e96/32.png) [@Vijay\_Rao](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vijay_Rao)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/moving-my-app-with-instant-rails-to-another-machine/121370/2 "2007-11-27T13:02:33Z")

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mongrel by default serves to all IP’s, if you cant get to it from  
external then there is probably a firewall issue…  
if its linux, type iptables -L and check