# Ruby/PHP/Lighttpd **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213 "2005-11-17T20:09:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/1 "2005-11-17T20:09:04Z")
Hey guys, I wanted to learn Ruby more precisely Ruby on Rails, and I ran into some problems hope you all can help. I installed ruby, gems, rails, php, lighttpd on Fedora Core 4. Tested everything and it is working. As my config file for Lighttpd I use the one from this [http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/howto/fc4rails/#testLighttpd](http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/howto/fc4rails/#testLighttpd). I have a directory /home/leTus/develop where I want to put all my projects. For example let’s say I have /home/leTus/develop -\>/Forum [PHP] -\>/Demo [Ruby] -\>/project3 [PHP] Using the config from the tutorial above I added a virtual host for my Demo project and after adding demo to my /etc/hosts file I can access it by typing demo in my browser. From my other computer I browse to the Linux box and I get the Lighttpd welcome screen, but when I type something like [http://demo.192.168.0.103](http://demo.192.168.0.103) or [http://192.168.0.103/demo](http://192.168.0.103/demo) I don’t get anything basically the project is un accessible from another comp. Another thing is that for every project I’ll have to go to the hosts file and edit it. Is there a way where I can just make some config file so I can access my projects this way [http://localhost/demo](http://localhost/demo) or [http://localhost/Forum](http://localhost/Forum) and have the php and ruby working. It’s kind of confusing but I can give more details if anybody is willing to help. i looked at some tutorials but they are talking about virtual hosts and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/2 "2005-11-18T00:26:25Z")
So nobody can help me? ---
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/3 "2005-11-18T00:33:58Z")
On 17 Nov 2005, at 19:09, leTus wrote: > config > file so I can access my projects this way [http://localhost/demo](http://localhost/demo) or > [http://localhost/Forum](http://localhost/Forum) and have the php and ruby working. It’s kind of > confusing but I can give more details if anybody is willing to help. i > looked at some tutorials but they are talking about virtual hosts and > stuff. Add demo to the hosts file on the other machine then surf to http:// demo/ on it. Generally people will take longer than 4 and a half hours to check and answer emails. Don’t give up hope just yet 😉 ## Yours, Craig Craig W. | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [Xeriom.NET](http://Xeriom.NET) | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: [http://xeriom.net](http://xeriom.net) ---
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/4 "2005-11-18T03:25:51Z")
these are 2 separate issues. IIS knowing how to “automatically” run files has nothing to do with your machine being able to resolve the host “demo”. Its straight up DNS. If you cant “ping demo” from the command line, then you cant connect to any ports on that machine either which is why Craig made the suggestion above. adam ---
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/5 "2005-11-18T00:51:07Z")
craig wrote: > Add demo to the hosts file on the other machine then surf to http:// > demo/ on it. > > Generally people will take longer than 4 and a half hours to check > and answer emails. Don’t give up hope just yet 😉 > > ## Yours, Craig > > Craig W. | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [Xeriom.NET](http://Xeriom.NET) | f: +44 (0)709 287 1902 | w: [http://xeriom.net](http://xeriom.net) Yeah but this is exactly what I don’t want to be doing, I want something like IIS does, all I need to do is to make a directory put my files in there and IIS automaticaly knows how to run them. ---
**Author:** ![letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@letus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/letus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-php-lighttpd/48213/6 "2005-11-18T04:07:59Z")
straightflush wrote: > these are 2 separate issues. IIS knowing how to “automatically” run > files has nothing to do with your machine being able to resolve the > host “demo”. Its straight up DNS. If you cant “ping demo” from the > command line, then you cant connect to any ports on that machine > either which is why Craig made the suggestion above. > > adam I don’t thing you all understand what I want, I know I can’t access demo what I meant is that for every project I am going to make I’ll have to add a new virtual host and change settings in hosts file also if I want to access that project from another computer from my network I’ll have to change the hosts file on that computer too. What I want is to have my /home/leTus/develop directory as the server root and all the directories inside of it working no matter what scripting language I use. For example in develop folder I would have 5 projects 3 PHP and 2 Ruby, and I could access them like this [http://localhost/project1](http://localhost/project1), [http://localhost/project2](http://localhost/project2) and so on. And if I want to make a new ruby project I would go and genereta the new one in the develp folder let’s say project6 and it would be working without or a little change in the lighttpd.conf file.