From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-06-30T08:25:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Agile Development with Ruby on Rails

"Jenjhiz" <jenjhiz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I bought the PDF version of the book yesterday. I'm having problems
> creating a new application. Here's what I did, as per the book's
> instructions:
>
> 1. Installed Rails: gem install rails

The book is written to Rails pre-0.13 and you've downloaded 0.12. You can 
get this bleeding edge Rails like this:
   gem install --source gems.rubyonrails.com

This won't cause your problem below, though, that Joe, Curt and Virender 
have been helping with.

> ...
> 6. Started WEBrick: ruby script/server
> WEBrick started, using port 3000.
> 7. Pointed browser to: http://localhost:3000/
> And this is where I get the "Seeing this instead of the website you
> expected?" Apache page, instead of the Rails application. I turned off
> the Apache service, just in case, but no success.
> Any ideas on how I may solve this problem?

If Apache is answering, it means it "owns" port 3000. Only one service can 
listen to a particular port at any given time.
You could shut down Apache, then run script/server, then open the browser 
(and flush your cache and refresh to make sure you're not getting a stale 
page).
But I imagine you want Apache and WEBrick to co-exist at some point. Check 
Apache's httpd.conf for the Listen directive. I have a line in mine that 
says:
    Listen 80
I guess you have a "Listen 3000" line somewhere there. Pick a number that 
isn't Apache's and do like this:

    ruby script/server -p 8765

(where 8765 is a number that isn't used)

HTH,
Dave