Moving my app with instant rails to another machine

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Hello,

I am doing a poor man’s equivalent of deploying. I had Instant rails on my laptop with mysql and the whole shebang. I now want to show my work to my professor and I am not looking to do a “production deployment”.

I tried moving my entire instant rails folder into a machine that has an IP exposed outside. However when I start mongrel it says listening at localhost or 0.0.0.0:3000.

I am not able to hit it from outside.

Is this a regular “port not open check firewall” issue or is there a setting in mongrel that tells it that it is not just serving localhost anymore?

Thanks Vijay

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mongrel by default serves to all IP's, if you cant get to it from external then there is probably a firewall issue... if its linux, type iptables -L and check