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By: Jake Bohall

Jake Bohall — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:20 +0000

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By: gm

gm — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:47:39 +0000

@superGNU, I had a very simliar problem and spent forever trying to get it going. It ultimately led me to stop with Rails and move to Django, and some php now too. Rails may be saturated – you see stuff like Heroku and twitter getting off rails

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:55:50 +0000

Hi SuperGNU.. I have updated the post at Getting Rails To Work With Xampp on Windows There was a missing bracket in the httpd.conf file. If you copy and paste, it will work.

By: SuperGNU

SuperGNU — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:35:46 +0000

nope, as I can’t start apache localhost is directed towards a service who’s not here, giving me a “Page Not Found”.

I tried running [cmd -> ruby script\server] with no results.
The apache isn’t running, so it returns:
ruby: no such file or directory — script/server (load error)

It’s like the service itself get jammed when I start it up, cause I get no form of error msg from the xampp control panel.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:51:20 +0000

try typing the following in command line after apache is running.

ruby script\server

Once you edit the .conf you can still browse to localhost for the apache and friend page right?

By: SuperGNU

SuperGNU — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:46:07 +0000

Oh, and I’ve tried rebooting my pc. Didn’t do much for me *sigh*.
Do I have to run some command to start the rails server?
I get nothing on http://localhost:3000

By: SuperGNU

SuperGNU — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:39:36 +0000

Well, I’ve now installed everything all over again just to rule out any mistakes. I’m certain I used the right guide

My problem is the apache service. After modifying conf file it won’t start. When I press “START” button in the control panel it just says “Apache service started” but nothing happens. I also tried starting it through windows services but only got an error message (service spesific error 1). If I remove the modifications in conf file the apache starts up as normal. MySQL runs fine on both.

For the record I’ve been developing php in my spare time for years, but used XAMPP as I’ve got little interest in running a real server only for testing apps. I’m about to digg myself into Ruby, but I’ll still be using php for many projects, so I’m really just looking for a way out of the multi-virtual-pc crap I’ll be stuck with if I can’t get this to work proporly

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Oh.. and another thing.. Try restarting your computer, and then restarting Apache… If you modified the httpd.conf without shutting down Apache server, it can cause problems…

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:41:43 +0000

@SuperGNU Thanks for the props! When you say "it simply won't start", what exactly is not starting.. Apache? MySql? Rails Server? Just to check, you are following all of the steps at Getting Rails To Work On A Windows Machine Running Xampp, and not the steps in this article, correct? For the record.. if you are just interested in running Rails, and not interested in a php library... I'd uninstall Xampp, and just go with InstantRails Just make sure you unzip it properly.