RubyGems 0.9.0/2?

I am trying to mimc an old installation with Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.1.6 and
the corresponding gems that go along with that. I am using the original
guide I used at hivelogic.com One of the issues is that I cannot use
RubyGems 0.9.0 or RubyGems 0.9.2 because the remote source doesn’t
respond and I get a HTTP 301 error when trying to install any gems. It
seems if I use RubyGems 1.3.6 after building Ruby 1.8.6 and then install
rails, I get errors that are based on the gem reference. If anyone has
any lead on this, it would be really appreciated.