# Rails on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows/86864 "2007-02-26T15:47:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows/86864/1 "2007-02-26T15:47:17Z")
For reasons beyond my control I’ve been saddled with deploying a Rails app I wrote onto a Win2k box. Installing Ruby, Rails, Mysql, and a host of other things that I need was easy enough, and I can now run the actual rails application via webrick. It looks awesome. But I can’t figure out for the life of my how to set up the server’s IIS configuration to handle my application. I’ve used > **[Rails on IIS revisited](http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/01/rails-on-iis-revisited.html)** > > Update: Brent Heinz has written an installer to automate this. Last time I wrote about setting up Rails on IIS I was in a bit of a rush. ... and a number of supplementary resources, and I’m still not getting any results. The filters are set correctly, I’ve set up a new website and pointed it to the myapp/public directory, etc etc. But when I go to where the website should be (i.e. [http://mydomain.com](http://mydomain.com)), all I see is the directory structure for /public. It’s as if Rails hasn’t been switched on at all, even though I know IIS is working and I followed that guide as closely as I could. Any suggestions or common problems I should be on the lookout for? ---
**Author:** ![guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows/86864/2 "2007-02-26T16:01:55Z")
rails-mailing-list wrote: > But I can’t figure out for the life of my how to set up the server’s IIS > configuration to handle my application. You could use… - CygWin - Webrick (script/server -p 80) - mongrel - Apache’s Win32 install So why IIS? – Phlip [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!! ---
**Author:** ![guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows/86864/3 "2007-02-26T16:58:17Z")
Hi, This is a very simple Ruby on Rails site that happily runs on windows 2003 server. [http://www.mbopdigital.com](http://www.mbopdigital.com) I use mongrel as a web server & start it on port 80 - very simple, but it means the box can only host one normal web site. Others seem to have managed what you are trying to do. Look here. [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSetupIIS](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoSetupIIS) rgds, - matt. Phlip wrote: > rails-mailing-list wrote: > > > But I can’t figure out for the life of my how to set up the server’s IIS > > configuration to handle my application. > > You could use… > > - CygWin > - Webrick (script/server -p 80) > - mongrel > - Apache’s Win32 install > > So why IIS? > > – > Phlip > [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!! ---
**Author:** ![guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@guest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guest)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-windows/86864/4 "2007-02-26T17:40:21Z")
Mike Volodarsky and others of the Microsoft IIS group are working on developing a FastCGI solution for running PHP/Ruby/etc on IIS. Here is his post on how to use FastCGI with Ruby on IIS. They are currently at a Technical Preview 2 level but hope to have a beta version released this spring. > **[10 steps to get Ruby on Rails running on Windows with IIS FastCGI - Mike...](https://mvolo.com/10-steps-to-get-ruby-on-rails-running-on-windows-with-iis-fastcgi/)** > > Since the original tech preview release of FastCGI last year, we've been seeing a lot of requests for getting Ruby on Rails running with our FastCGI.  Theoretically, since the FastCGI component uses a standard protocol to support FastCGI-enabled... Hope this helps.