# Webrick across network

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909 "2007-07-20T02:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909/1 "2007-07-20T02:50:51Z")

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I do my development on a Linux box. I’d like to test my code on a  
Windows box running IE - as that is what most of my users will have. The  
problem is that I can’t access the Webrick server on my Linux box from  
another computer on the network. It just can’t connect.

I’m guessing that there is some configuration I’m missing - but I can’t  
find it. Can someone offer some help?

Thanks in Advance  
—Michael

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909/2 "2007-07-20T05:24:39Z")

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Michael S. wrote:

> 

Michael,  
I can think of two things to check (probably obvious, yet I thought  
I will mention them):  
a) Make sure you can ping the Linux box from the windows machine.  
Someimes one way works, but not the other way.  
b) Also make sure Webrick is using 0.0.0.0:3000 and not  
127.0.0.1:3000  
Cheers

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909/3 "2007-07-20T16:01:40Z")

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Krishna Sankar wrote:

> Michael S. wrote:
> 
> > 
> 
> ```
> b) Also make sure Webrick is using 0.0.0.0:3000 and not 
> 
> ```
> 
> 127.0.0.1:3000

This sounds promising. I’m not sure where the configuration for Webrick  
_IS_. I’ve even grepped for 3000 figuring that if there’s a  
configuration somewhere, it has to have the port in it.

Where can I find / change the Webrick configuration?

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**Author:** ![wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@wickie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wickie)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-across-network/109909/4 "2007-07-26T00:46:19Z")

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Try running the script/server command with -h

That prints:

Usage: server [options]  
-p, --port=port Runs Rails on the specified port.  
Default: 3000  
-b, --binding=ip Binds Rails to the specified ip.  
Default: 0.0.0.0  
-d, --daemon Make server run as a Daemon.  
-e, --environment=name Specifies the environment to run  
this server under (test/development/production).  
Default: development

```
-h, --help Show this help message.

```

Something you might want to check: set your binding IP, your Port,  
and make sure your Firewall rules will allow the incoming connection.

Hope this helps -

Dave  
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On Jul 20, 8:01 am, Michael S. \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-