problems getting InstantRails working

> -----Original Message-----
> Hi. My 1st post!
> 
> Been trying to get Ruby & Rails working on a
windows machine 
> for most of yesterday. Gave up after not being able to
get 
> IIS to bring up a Rails page on localhost.
> 
> So InstantRails seemed like the way forward. Got it
installed 
> ok, but I cant get it to serve Rails pages,
specifically the 
> cookbook app .. have gone through the instructions, and
put 
> the index.html from the cookbook app folder into the
www 
> folder. It says:
> 
> The requested URL /recipe/list was not found on this
server.
> 
> (after loading http://www.railscookbook
.com which redirects to
> http://www.r
ailscookbook.com/recipe/list)
 
It sounds like you are trying to have IIS serve up your
Rails app.  Out
of the box InstantRails is configured to use apache for
serving the
apps.  I suspect that there may be a port conflict between
Apache and
IIS on port 80.

I would try shutting down IIS and following the InstantRails
instructions to confirm that the IR setup is working as
expected.  Then
you can decide on how to move forward with IIS. I recall
from others
posts to the main Rails list that getting IIS working can be
challenging.

> If i try http://www.railscoo
kbook.com:3001 it just loads forever.
> 
> This is all on Firefox.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Adam

This is typically a development URL that would be used with
the dev web
server.  You can test this by going to the cookbook app
directory and
starting Webrick from a command prompt.

c:InstantRails-1.3rails_appscookbook>ruby
script/server

You should see output like the following

=> Booting WEBrick...
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for
options
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24)
[i386-mswin32]
[2006-10-03 13:19:49] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start:
pid=13148
port=3000

Then you can go to http://www.railscoo
kbook.com:3000 and it should load
up as expected (assuming you made the entry in your local
hosts file).

What I typically use is http://localhost:3000 for
my development testing

Let us know if this works or what results you get and we can
try
troubleshooting more.

Good luck and welcome to Rails!

--Bill
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