# Site is Down! Please help!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/site-is-down-please-help/139277>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/site-is-down-please-help/139277 "2008-06-02T15:34:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vertigo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/site-is-down-please-help/139277/1 "2008-06-02T15:34:15Z")

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Hi everyone!

I sort of inherited the management of a Ruby Website running on a Mac  
and I have not had too much time to get onboard the rails!

Long story short, we had a power failure and upon restarting the  
server…our site no longer comes up. Can anybody help???

Thanks so much!!!

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**Author:** ![Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vertigo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/site-is-down-please-help/139277/2 "2008-06-02T15:35:26Z")

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On Jun 2, 2:30 pm, Vertigo [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> I sort of inherited the management of a Ruby Website running on a Mac  
> and I have not had too much time to get onboard the rails!
> 
> Long story short, we had a power failure and upon restarting the  
> server…our site no longer comes up. Can anybody help???

This is a complete guess, but if the app is running off a mongrel  
cluster you need to cd to the app’s folder and run  
mongrel\_rails cluster::start

Fred

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**Author:** ![Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Vertigo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vertigo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/site-is-down-please-help/139277/3 "2008-06-02T15:37:50Z")

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Vertigo… this is quite complicated. There can be many things wrong.  
Maybe you just need to run a few commands (as Frederick C. typed)  
to get it to run. But that depends on the site’s setup. If you don’t  
know how they did it, then you’d be shooting at the dark, especially  
if you don’t know RoR 🙂

I would hunt down the ones that used to maintain, and get a hold of  
the documentation (pray that there is).

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Vertigo [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> >

–  
Ramon T.