[Instantrails-users] [NewBie]Access RailsApp from different computer

[shodhan]

Hi
thanks(Curt and Ed)
shodhan

E Gard wrote:

>Hi Shodhan,
>
>I don't know what kind of network setup you have, but
>I'm using a linksys router with DDNS (See DynDNS at
>www.dyndns.org).
>
>Here is my change:
>
><VirtualHost *>
>    #### Salted ####
>    ServerName x2egard.dyndns.org
>
>The DynDNS site let's you create the above name and
>maps it to your router's IP address (no charge for the
>service, it's free!).  My router than forwards port 80
>(Apache) to a machine on my local network.
>
>I browse to http://x2egard.dyndns.org/ and get the
>salted rails app from any internet connected browser.
>
>Ed
>
>
>--- shodhan <shodhan_sheth at persistent.co.in> wrote:
>
>
>---------------------------------
>  Hi
>InstantRails works perfectly fine on my computer after
>i make thefollowing changes in the configuration files
>
>modified start_scgi to include -h option
>..\..\ruby\bin\ruby.exe script\scgi_rails start
>-hmy.ip.add.ress -p 9999 -e production -D
>modified hosts  to include
>my.ip.addr.ess            www.myApp.com
>modified httpd.conf, (modified cookbook virtualhost)
><VirtualHost *>
>    ServerName www.myApp.com
>    # handle all requests through SCGI
>    SCGIMount / my.ip.add.ress:9999
>    DocumentRoot ${path}/rails_apps/myApp/public
>    <Directory ${path}/rails_apps/myApp/public>
>        Options +FollowSymLinks
>        Order allow,deny
>        allow from all
>    </Directory>
>    AddDefaultCharset utf-8
>    ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
>    ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
>    # matches locations with a dot following at least
>one morecharacters,
>    # that is, things like   *.html, *.css, *.js,
>which should bedelivered
>    # directly from the filesystem. Also matches the
>following
>    # subdirectories: images, javascript(s),
>stylesheets
>   
><LocationMatch^/(images|javascript|javascripts|stylesheets|[^/]+\.[^/]+$)>
>        # don't handle those with SCGI
>        SCGIHandler Off
>    </LocationMatch>
>    <LocationMatch "^/$">
>        # don't handle just / with SCGI
>        SCGIHandler Off
>   </LocationMatch>
></VirtualHost>
>  
>Once i start scgi myApp is up at www.myApp.com
>Unfortunately the same is not accessible from a
>different computer. 
>So the question is 1) is this configuration right, and
>2) is this theonnly configuration required to make my
>app accessible to the othercomputers
>many thanx in advance
>shodhan
>ps: if i try telnet my.ip.add.ress 9999 from another
>machine, it turnsout to be sucessfull
>  
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