I found several and somewhat complex solutions for this particular problem but actually it’s a no-brainer once you know. Simply type: hukl$ script/server -h => Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) Usage: server [options] -p, –port=port Runs Rails on the specified port. Default: 3000 -b, –binding=ip Binds Rails to the specified ip. Default: […]
For quite some time I’m trying to figure out how I could use old and current Apple hardware as decent server platform. Somebody was asking why I wasn’t using Linux or BSD operating systems which are known to work smoothly. Actually I’m using FreeBSD where ever I can for servers but installing and running FreeBSD […]
The last couple of days I tried to set up an old G4 with OS X 10.4 Tiger to work as a webserver. I didn’t want to run the apache / php that ships with Tiger because these versions are far behind the current versions. So I installed everything via macports which worked pretty smooth. […]
I just got a new computer and one of the first things is to install rails and postgresql. For some reason this worked smoothly on my old Powerbook but I installed everything clean on my MacBookPro and for some reason it didn’t work so well. I install everything with MacPorts and the location of Postgres […]
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