# Rails 1.2.3 and lighttpd not working together

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-3-and-lighttpd-not-working-together/113072>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-3-and-lighttpd-not-working-together/113072 "2007-08-27T07:14:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-2-3-and-lighttpd-not-working-together/113072/1 "2007-08-27T07:14:22Z")

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I have a rails dev machine running freebsd 6.2.  
It has the latest ruby 1.8.6, rails 1.2.3, and lighttpd 1.4.16  
When i create a new app, and start script/server I get the typical msg  
saying that its booting lighttpd and that Ctl+C will kill the server.  
However, when i try to access the webserver it doesn’t respond.  
When I hit Ctrl+C it says “exiting” but then it just hangs there.  
Using ‘top’ i can see that there’re 2 ruby processes that are pinning  
the cpu. They wont terminate so i have to kill -9 them.  
If i start script/server webrick, my app is online with no problems  
whatsoever.

I’ve already tried googling for solution, nothing I could find solved  
my problem.

Anybody knows fix this?

PS. I’ve previously used lighttpd with rails 1.1.x on freebsd 6.2 and  
never had a problem.