# RoR & IIS &

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 25, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205 "2006-04-25T14:49:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bolo)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205/1 "2006-04-25T14:49:35Z")

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Hello all ?

is it possible to configure 2 or more aplications on IIS, each one in a  
different virtual directory ?

thanks all

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**Author:** ![Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bolo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205/2 "2006-06-06T00:19:44Z")

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Bump

I have the same question. I need to run [http://server.com/foo](http://server.com/foo) as a  
rails  
app and  
[http://server.com/bar](http://server.com/bar) as a php app or such. What’s the best way to do  
this  
on IIS and windows 2003?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bolo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205/3 "2006-06-06T00:41:29Z")

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Well Shawn, running RoR on IIS is not an easy thing to do at all. If  
someone else here has better knowledge, I do not know of anyone who has  
tried and succeeded in getting RoR to run properly with IIS. Stick with  
Apache, if you can, it’s a hell of a lot easier and nicer.

Again, if someone else has had success with this, please respond.

Jason

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**Author:** ![Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bolo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205/4 "2006-06-06T01:03:00Z")

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Thanks for your insight Jason,

Under normal conditions, I’d agree with you. In fact, all sites I have  
worked on have been on Apache. The problem arose because the situation  
will  
not allow apache. A rails site has to be wedged into an IIS  
configuration  
on a pre-existing server without interrupting its other sites. Also, to  
add  
some additional information port 80 is all that can be allowed, so  
simply  
running webrick on a different port will not work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bolo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bolo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-iis/94205/5 "2006-06-06T01:37:15Z")

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Here is an article on the subject:

> **[Rails on IIS revisited](http://made-of-stone.blogspot.com/2006/01/rails-on-iis-revisited.html)**
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> 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. ...