Four Days on Rails: Errror: connection refused

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1

Hello,
I'm installing Four Days on Rails. On the first checkpoint, I attempt
to connect to the server:

http://todo/

In Mozilla, the message is that connection is refused. In IE: Cannot
find server or DNS Error. I have done the following steps. What did i
miss?

Thanks
basi

Steps:
1. Create the directory stucture
c:\> subst w: c:\www\webroot
c:\> w:
w:\> rails ToDo
2. Define application in the hosts file
127.0.0.1 todo
127.0.0.1 localhost
207.68.172.246 msn.com
3. Define the application in Apache. Restarted apache.
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName todo
  DocumentRoot /www/webroot/ToDo/public
  <Directory /www/webroot/ToDo/public/>
    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Allow from all
    Order allow,deny
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
4. Switch to fastcgi
# Change extension from .cgi to .fcgi to switch to FCGI and to .rb to
swith to mod_ruby
RewriteBase /dispatch.fcgi

2

basi:

http://todo/

In Mozilla, the message is that connection is refused. In IE: Cannot find
server or DNS Error.

Seems the host configuration does not work. Will http://localhost or
http://127.0.0.1 do it?

Malte

3

basi wrote:

3. Define the application in Apache. Restarted apache.
  DocumentRoot /www/webroot/ToDo/public
  <Directory /www/webroot/ToDo/public/>

On windows you need to specify c:/www/webroot/ToDo/public ... Windows doesn't comprehend "/www/...."

Zach

4

Unfortunately, neither one works either. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm
still stuck.

5

Zach,
Added the drive letter c:, thus:

DocumentRoot c:/www/webroot/ToDo/public
<Directory c:/www/webroot/ToDo/public/>

Then restarted Apache and attempted to connect:

http://localhost:80/

but, still, connection was refused.

Thanks,
basi

6

Basi,

It sounds like apache's not running (or is listening on the wrong interface
or port).

Try telnetting to localhost on port 80 to see if anything's listening.

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Mando

On 4/18/05, basi <basiibarra@yahoo.com> wrote:

Unfortunately, neither one works either. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm
still stuck.

7

Mando,
I used Port Detective, and it reported that Port 80 is open.
Thanks,
basi