# Webrick does not start

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-does-not-start/93074>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 27, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-does-not-start/93074 "2007-04-27T05:51:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jacquie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jacquie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jacquie)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 5:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-does-not-start/93074/1 "2007-04-27T05:51:33Z")

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I have ruby on rails on windows xp. Previously the program worked well  
on other windows machines. Then I export the code from the repository to  
my computer. I ran the command" ruby script\server", it gave me  
=\> Booting WEBrick…

then came back to the command line.

I had this problem before but got solved out by changing the user  
password in the database. somehow it doesnt work this time by doing  
that. I suspect it still has something to do with the database  
authorisation issue. anybody has some ideas?

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**Author:** ![jacquie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jacquie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jacquie)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-does-not-start/93074/2 "2007-04-27T05:56:38Z")

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by the way, I didnt find any useful information in the development.log  
file. looks it is not the right place to look at.

Jacquie F. wrote:

> I have ruby on rails on windows xp. Previously the program worked well  
> on other windows machines. Then I export the code from the repository to  
> my computer. I ran the command" ruby script\server", it gave me  
> =\> Booting WEBrick…
> 
> then came back to the command line.
> 
> I had this problem before but got solved out by changing the user  
> password in the database. somehow it doesnt work this time by doing  
> that. I suspect it still has something to do with the database  
> authorisation issue. anybody has some ideas?