Why can't I access Webrick web server from other computers?

Rails
1

Hi everyone,

I have a rails project running on Ubuntu. When I ran it on localhost
http://localhost:3000, it worked perfectly. But when I tried to access
from other computers in the same network by either http://hostname:3000
or http://[ipaddress]:3000, I got a “Internet Explorer cannot display
the webpage” error.

I double checked my ubuntu with iptables, no rules are defined:

iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Did I miss some configurations? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

xianese

2

What does it say when ruby script/server boots up? It should be
binding to either your IP address or to 0.0.0.0 (all IP addresses).

On Jun 19, 3:01 pm, Mian Z. [email protected]

3

Hey,
You should start webrick or mongrel with
./script/server -b <IP_ADDRESS> -p [-e production]

Then you will be able to access it from other machines on the network.

Cheers,
Pavan

4

To get this working in internet explorer in development, you have to
prepend the address with HTTP:// when using a port (:3000), without
http:// IE will fail to load the page

On Jun 19, 1:35 pm, Mian Z. [email protected]

5

Pavankumar Kulkarni wrote:

Hey,
You should start webrick or mongrel with
./script/server -b <IP_ADDRESS> -p [-e production]

Then you will be able to access it from other machines on the network.

Cheers,
Pavan

Pavan and Julian,

it works!!!

Thanks a lot.

Mian