My app runs on localhost:3000 on my mac
My mac has its own local address eee.local
Other computers in the office, including other windows machines
can connect to eee.local:3000 and use the the rails app.
However we had once case where one person's windows7 machine
could not connect. I brought a brand new windows7 machine for
IE testing purposes and it doesn't connect either.
I tried turning of the firewall and that doesn't work.
I tried using the ip instead eg. 192.160.0.3:3000 but that doesn't work.
I'm not really sure how else to check, or search for this problem
Anything Im overlooking?
Another thing to try is to install iTunes. Sounds silly at first but installing iTunes gives your Windows machine Bonjour service discovery (enabled by default on Macs and Ubuntu desktops) which would let you resolve .local addresses.
Accessing via the IP really should have worked but if you've already turned off firewalls and the machines are on the same network then enabling Bonjour (by installing iTunes) is worth a shot.
Is the other Windows machine on a different subnet? That could cause the issue.
You need to tell the web server to listen on all interfaces like so:
./script/server 0.0.0.0:3000
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I’m probably doing something stupid here, but....
I can’t access a rails app running on my Mac from a Windows 10 VM. I have set the network adapter to "Share with My Mac". I can access a PHP site running on my mac via http://[my-machine-name].local or http://[my-ip-address]. But if I specify port 3000 to view my rails app I get an error message (to the effect that [my-ip-address] refused to connect) even though the app is running. I don’t know if this is an issue at the Mac end (though my firewall is off for testing), the windows end, or to do with my VMWare network adapter setting. Any assistance gratefully received
Peter
Just use the -b flag while running your rails app like rails server -b 0.0.0.0:3000 so it gets bound to the whole network interfaces and it can be accessed from outside
After upgrading to OSX Yosemite, I can no longer test my app on a mobile device by using my development machine's (MacBook Pro) IP address. For example, I used to be able to view a Rails app on a phone by going to http://192.168.0.4:3000, but now I get the following error:
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
I get the same error when testing an AngularJS app using the grunt server running at http://192.168.0.4:9000
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
It could help to bind the server to your local IP, like
rails s -p9000 -b192.168.0.4
to start your rails app
Consider giving a try to Pow. Its pretty simple to install, and a great solution to share a local development across multiple devices.
Like it explains in their homepage, you can install it with just :
curl get.pow.cx | sh. To prevent any errors, install in Terminal app outside a Tmux session.
And just symlink your app :
cd ~/.pow
ln -s /path/to/myapp
You can access your app at http://myapp.dev/, and at http://myapp.[your ip address].xip.io from another device.
Not a direct response to your issue, but an alternative to setting yourself a configuration in your preferences.
Turn IPv6 off. It Prevented me from connecting to my localhost from other computers on my LAN. And, with the newer versions of OSX there is no way to turn it off in the Network Preferences Panel so you have to do it from terminal.
Open Terminal and enter to turn it off:
networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi
And this to turn it back on:
networksetup -setv6LinkLocal Wi-Fi
If you are connected via Ethernet or something else just run this command to list the available options:
networksetup -listallnetworkservices
and replace "Wi-Fi" with the appropriate device.
I don't have a mac, but that seems to be the server not accepting connections, if that is the case, it's only accepting localhost connections, try binding de server to accept all connections or bind it to 0.0.0.0 ip
Can you access that IP from Browser? are you sure your IP is in the same range with 192.168.0.4? It is your mobile device connected on the same network? Maybe you used internet sharing before update to Yosemite and now is off?
I think your IP address changed. Telnet from console(terminal) your I.P. port. If 192.168.0.4 is your real Ip then maybe add(as root or via sudo) an entry in /etc/host file an entry as 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.4. Restart network or reboot. Also you can try nmap ( on ip to see open ports). Nmap has been ported to OSX just google for installer.
I'm running a Windows 7 VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 13.10 machine where I have my rails app. I access my rails app through subdomains (i.e. subdomain1.lvh.me:3000) and I'm trying to access these same subdomains through my VB. I've read to change the host file but I haven't been able to make it work. Would I be using the Gateway IP or the IPv4 address?
The reason for me trying to accomplish this is to develop on my Ubuntu machine and test for IE issues on my VB without using paid third party websites to render my changes.
I think that if, for example, your ubuntu machine's ip address is 192.168.0.123, then it should suffice to have this line in your windows hosts file
192.168.0.123 subdomain1.lvh.me subdomain2.lvh.me subdomain3.lvh.me
Then on your windows vb you would access subdomain1.lvh.me:3000 like you say.
Have you done this? I don't know what you mean by " I've read to change the host file but I haven't been able to make it work. " What isn't working?
Problem:
My rails app (on my local machine) only responds to requests sent from the same machine to localhost, 127.0.0.1, or my internal ip address. When I try to hit it using my internet ip or from any other machine, inside or outside of my network, it just times out. I'm on Mac OS 10.9.1, ruby 1.9.3, rails 4.0.0.
I've done a lot of searching but all I can find is problems where people didn't forward their ports or bind the right ip.
Here are the areas I've investigated:
Ports -
I've tried several different ports. I configured my router to forward every port I tried but got the same result. I thought maybe there was a problem with the router so I built a simple server in Java and bound all the same ports I was binding with my rails app. Sure enough, when I hit the Java app using my internet ip it worked just fine so the router/firewall/port forwarding isn't the problem. Also, I run an apache server on port 80 and that has never had any problems. I turned apache off and tried port 80 for my rails app but that didn't fix the problem.
Rails Server -
I started with WEBrick and I thought that perhaps there was some setting inside that blocked external requests. I searched google extensively and found nothing on that matter. Just to be safe I installed Thin and got the exact same result I did with WEBrick. One interesting thing is that when the rails server is started, the external request takes a long time to time-out, but the server console displays no output at all. However if I try to send the same request w/out starting the server at all it fails immediately.
User Permissions -
I started the server with root (i'm starting to just shoot in the dark here) and it had no effect.
Environment -
I was starting in development environment originally because I'm developing but just for fun I tried starting in production and it also made no difference.
PLEASE HELP ME SMART PEOPLE
Update:
I installed the app on my Ubuntu machine and it doesn't have this problem! So that suggests the problem may have something to do with Mac OS.
SOLVED:
It turns out that in the System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall in Mac OS, it was somehow set to block incoming connections to Ruby 1.9.3. I must have accidentally set that some time ago.
The problem is you are probably trying to request the page from your local machine (or any computer on your local network, behind your firewall) to your public IP expecting a result... not unless you setup routes through your firewall for this (and not usually available on a consumer level router... linksys, dlink, etc)
So forward port 80 if you are using something like pow, or 3000 for web bricks default port to your local machine
Then have someone outside your local lan request your external (public) IP
This may be related: Rails 3.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 under VirtualBox very slow
Your mention of slowness combined with the use of webrick makes me think you've got some reverse-DNS lookup awfulness going on. A quick first step is hacking /etc/hosts to bypass this lookup.
The situation I dealt with on Ubuntu was solved in the short-term by hacking /etc/hosts. You could do this quick hack in order to see if it is indeed just webrick's reverse-DNS lookup. Edit /etc/hosts and add a line for the external user's IP address, something like this:
156.123.48.55 TestPerson
Replace the IP address with the tester's IP address. Since you said you can get the external request to hit an Apache server on port 80, you can grab their IP address from the Apache access logs if necessary, otherwise just ask the person testing.
You could also try a different web server, such as unicorn, which may help out. Add "gem unicorn-rails" to your Gemfile, run bundle install, and then (according to their docs), rails server will just use unicorn directly.
With any local server, you'll need to correctly configure port forwarding on your firewall. Like said by CaptChrisD, tests must be done by an external IP/browser (if you own a server, ssh on it, then w3m to test).
I already had same symptom (server started => timeout, server stopped => fail) and the origin was an issue with firewall configuration. I think it is your problem.
With MacOS, Pow is really awesome: installation is easy, no configuration required (no /etc/hosts…). Moreover, they give you a hook for external access to your virtualhosts (but you still need port forwarding on your firewall).
Otherwise, there is other solutions like Forward to do it without firewall configuration (30-days free trial).
Hope this helps!
I've got Ubuntu (the newest version) running as a virtual machine on Windows 7 Pro, using VMware.
My question is, can I make the rails sever acessible to windows while the virtual machine is running?
So, for example, if I type on my Windows browser http://localhost:3000 I would get the rails sever?
Also, can I make it acessible to computers from the outside, so if someone would type
myipaddress:3000 he would be able to acess the sever as a client?
I hope this is clear.
There are a lot of "ifs" here, but it should "just work".
In Linux, find the IP address of your virtual machine.
$ /sbin/ifconfig
You're looking for a section that is probably labelled "eth0" and in that "inet addr".
Using that address with port 3000 from your Windows host should work fine. If not, post the specific problem that you're seeing, including any logs you can find or info on any firewalls you have running on your Linux client.