# Webrick server does not respond forever

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280 "2006-09-11T12:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/1 "2006-09-11T12:49:12Z")

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I had to reinstall Windows, and Ruby/RoR as well.

Ruby seems to work fine, but when I start Webrick and try to open  
[http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000), my browser (both IE and Firefox) keeps waiting  
forever. It nevers times out, just waiting and wating…

Disabling firewall and other obvious candidates did not help. I hope it  
is something very trivial, but I am totally lost.

Please help.

Regards,  
Aleksey Chabunin

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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/2 "2006-09-11T12:52:03Z")

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Hmm, is it possible to edit the messages here?

Anyway, just wanted to mention that it used to work just fine on my  
previous Windows installation, the only difference is fresh Win XP  
installation and newer versions of Ruby/RoR.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/3 "2006-09-11T14:28:09Z")

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Aleksey Chabunin \<rails-mailing-list@…\> writes:

> Hmm, is it possible to edit the messages here?

No, the forum is just a web interface to a mailing list (there are  
others, I use  
[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails](http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails) for example)

> Anyway, just wanted to mention that it used to work just fine on my  
> previous Windows installation, the only difference is fresh Win XP  
> installation and newer versions of Ruby/RoR.

Hmm, until you said that I would have thought it was a stray breakpoint  
or  
something. What error messages are there either on screen if you start  
script/server or in the log/ directory?

Gareth

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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/4 "2006-09-11T15:21:20Z")

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I tried it via Radrails and in command line, it made no difference, the  
browser stalls indefinitely.

It has to be some fundemantal flaw because it fails so badly, but I  
cannot figure it out. ☹

I do need this runnig properly, but I just cannot afford going through  
reinstallation again ☹

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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/5 "2006-09-11T14:56:36Z")

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Garet,

There is nothing in Webrick log and browser window is empty. It does not  
time out, just waits… weird

In status line it says ‘waiting for localhost’. If I try to reach on  
localhost on the wrong port, it correctly gives me an error message, but  
stalls on the right one. It feels like something is ‘broken’, but I  
cannot get what.

I quit all network programs, antiviruses, and firewall… still no  
effect.

Search on Google indicate a very small number of people run into the  
same problem, but no solution/reason is suggested.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hukilai](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hukilai)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-server-does-not-respond-forever/68280/6 "2006-10-25T17:07:50Z")

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Hi Aleksey,  
I am having a similiar probelm to the one you have described (on linux  
and mysql). have you found a solution to the problem?  
Regards  
Guy