# Newbie question - verifying it works right **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 24, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-verifying-it-works-right/48781 "2005-11-24T17:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tylerc083)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-verifying-it-works-right/48781/1 "2005-11-24T17:06:03Z")
I’m running apache 1.x on os x tiger. I installed RoR following this website: [http://www.tonyarnold.com/articles/2005/08/10/rolling-with-ruby-on-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-for-beginners](http://www.tonyarnold.com/articles/2005/08/10/rolling-with-ruby-on-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-for-beginners) I’ve got apache set up to point to the right directoy, and the virtual host is created properly (ie, i made a virtual directoy named ‘rails\_dev’ to point to the public folder within the Rails installation) So, when I put this in my URL: http://rails\_dev/index.html I get the “Congratulations, you’ve put Ruby on Rails!” However, if I just put ‘http://rails\_dev/’ I get: Application error Rails application failed to start properly" And in my apache error log it has this: mod\_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use ‘RewriteOptions MaxRedirects’ to increase the limit if neccessary. Inside my .htaccess file I have this: RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] RewriteBase /test/ \*note - I’ve used RewriteBase of rails\_dev thinking it may have been with the URL, but I still get the same error Also, when I try to run dispatch.cgi, I recieve this error: Routing Error Recognition failed for “/dispatch.cgi” Any ideas/help? Anything that someone needs that I didn’t provide? Let me know, I’d really like to try developing in ror… but just getting started (with any language) always seems like the biggest hurdle…heh Thanks in advance! Tyler ---
**Author:** ![tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tylerc083)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-verifying-it-works-right/48781/2 "2005-11-25T04:08:08Z")
tyler, not sure why http://rails\_dev/ points you to rails, but I think you maybe getting “recognition for dispatch.CGI” because you have a rewrite rule only for dispatch.FCGI hope this helps (i’m a newbie too) - Oliver 2005/11/24, tyler craft [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tylerc083)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-verifying-it-works-right/48781/3 "2005-11-25T05:10:29Z")
thanks for the response. I should have explained more. My current setup is that I have a number of virtual hosts set up with apache. so for instance, i manage a website [freeformfilm.org](http://freeformfilm.org). I have set up a virtual host called freeformfilm\_dev which points to /Users/tyler/Sites/freeformfilm/dev/ This way I don’t have to keep doing localhost/freeformfilm/dev/ to get to the site, and in my files, if I start a path with /, I wouldn’t go to localhost, but rather the root of the dev folder. Although from the .htaccess file that Rails made, it looks like I could have done this in that file with the RewriteBase… but that is another topic… I’ve made (what I think) is a little progress. I’ve cleared up the rewrite issues. So I have a virtual host set up for rails\_dev to point to /Users/tyler/Rails/Test/public/ When I go to this, the Rails welcome page comes up. I even made a hello.cgi file with this that works: #!/usr/bin/ruby print “Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n” print “Hello World!\r\n” I copied this file and made it hello.fcgi to see what would happen, but my error log keeps coming back with this in an endless loop (or until I restart apache): [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “/Users/tyler/Rails/Test/public/hello.fcgi” restarted (pid 19339) And when I tried to open the dispatch.cgi I get this in the browser: Routing Error Recognition failed for “/dispatch.cgi” Perhaps I just haven’t got my head around how ror works. Should I even be concerned about this? Or since the .cgi file worked… that just means I have Ruby working right, but not Rails? Again, thanks for the response. ---
**Author:** ![tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tylerc083](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tylerc083)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-verifying-it-works-right/48781/4 "2005-11-26T15:41:46Z")
tyler craft wrote: […] > Any ideas/help? Anything that someone needs that I didn’t provide? Let > me know, I’d really like to try developing in ror… but just getting > started (with any language) always seems like the biggest hurdle…heh For learning Rails on OS X, Locomotive [1] + TextMate [2] is a great combination. Don’t worry about hooking up to Apache until you really need to. regards Justin [1] [http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/](http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/) [2] [http://www.macromates.com/](http://www.macromates.com/)