An issue regarding http://localhost/3000/

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I am new to the Ruby on Rails programming system and I just purchased Railspace but I cannot pull up this URL needed to progress further through the book, It is telling me it is an invalid URL, what should I do?

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I believe you have the address wrong. Shouldn't it be a colon (:slight_smile: instead of a slash (/) between localhost and 3000? i.e.: http://localhost:3000/

Pepe

3

Warren,

It is -

http://localhost:3000

That's a colon, not a slash : 3000 is the port on which Rails is listening.

Phil

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Warrenk wrote:

I am new to the Ruby on Rails programming system and I just purchased Railspace but I cannot pull up this URL needed to progress further through the book, It is telling me it is an invalid URL, what should I do?

You meant http://localhost:3000/ with a colon, right?

The colon introduces the port number, which is :80 by default. Websites in a development mode typically run on a port higher than some number, such as 1024, because these ports have different security issues, and are up for grabs.