First off, I thought I’d let you know that im UBER new at ruby, so what
im asking you may have a really simple answer…
Anyway, i just started using RoR and i’ve set it up on OSX, running
Apache2.
It all goes fine and dandy, I get the “Welcome aboard” page to say that
its all setup and running ok, but when I click on “About your
applications environment” it returns a message saying “For security
purposes, this information is only available to local requests.” even
though its all been served and requested from the same system?
Anyway, i just started using RoR and i’ve set it up on OSX, running
Apache2. It all goes fine and dandy, I get the “Welcome aboard” page
to say that its all setup and running ok, but when I click on “About
your applications environment” it returns a message saying “For
security purposes, this information is only available to local
requests.” even though its all been served and requested from the
same system?
Any ideas?
Does it work properly with script/server (WEBrick)?
This comment isn’t about you, Aaron, but I’m completely baffled why
so many new people go through the effort of setting up “production”
type systems before they know anything about the system, rather than
just go with the built in web server which pretty much always works
perfectly.
Anyway, i just started using RoR and i’ve set it up on OSX, running
Apache2. It all goes fine and dandy, I get the “Welcome aboard” page
to say that its all setup and running ok, but when I click on “About
your applications environment” it returns a message saying “For
security purposes, this information is only available to local
requests.” even though its all been served and requested from the
same system?
Any ideas?
Does it work properly with script/server (WEBrick)?
This comment isn’t about you, Aaron, but I’m completely baffled why
so many new people go through the effort of setting up “production”
type systems before they know anything about the system, rather than
just go with the built in web server which pretty much always works
perfectly.
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– Tom M.
Hi Tom,
Yes the script does work fine with WEBrick.
and i’ve since worked out the error.
If I go to the url http://0.0.0.0/AppName/ it works fine [ no
permissions issues ] but if I go to 127.0.0.1/AppName or
localhost/AppName I get errors gallore…
There’s some built-in Rails magic that makes the “about box”
functionality work. The “About your application’s environment” link
invokes a controller named rails_info_controller.rb that lives deep
in the guts of your Rails installation. Mine (on OS X) is in the /usr/
local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.0.0/builtin/ directory. Yours
should be in the same general vicinity.
If you look inside that file, you’ll see there’s a method defined
there called “properties”. That’s the method that services the
rails_info/properties action invoked by the link. The properties()
method uses the local_request?() method of ApplicationController to
decide what to display. You can view the documentation for
local_request()? at http://api.rubyonrails.com. Scroll down in the
“Methods” frame at the bottom left of your browser and click on the
local_request? method name to see its documentation. You should also
be able to view the actual source code for the method from within the
documentation as well (by clicking on the “show source” link).
From what I can tell, using 127.0.0.1 as your server address should
work okay, but there may be something about your environment that’s
getting in your way. You should be able to add some debug to your
application to find out what value is getting put in @request.remote_addr and go from there.
Sure does David.
Thanks a million for the tips, i’ll dig into the debug data and see
whats going arie…
Just for the record, yes I am using OSX, I haven’t played around much
with the ‘host’ file, or in mac world, the netinfo settings. but scenes
im not creating virtual hosts in apache, and rather using aliases to
point to the public folders of the apps from within the htdocs folder.
A friend of mine mentioned it could have to do with the app not having
www read and write permissions, so i chmod’ed them and still seem to be
having issues.
But i’ll take Davids advice and give it a whirl tonight…
Yes the script does work fine with WEBrick.
and i’ve since worked out the error.
If I go to the url http://0.0.0.0/AppName/ it works fine [ no
permissions issues ] but if I go to 127.0.0.1/AppName or
localhost/AppName I get errors gallore…
Is this on a Windows box? If so, do you have an entry “127.0.0.1
AppName” in your hosts file?
Thanks,
Bill
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