Can't connect to localhost:3000

Rails
1

The hard drive on my Macbook recently failed. A local shop replaced it
and
restored data from the failing drive. Thereafter, I couldn’t start the
the
rails server on rails apps that previously had worked as expected. I
subsequently rebuilt rails 2.1.3 under rvm. Now, rails -s starts
WEBrick
successfully, but I can only connect on 0.0.0.0:3000 rather than on
localhost:3000 as I from rails apps that allowed it just a couple of
days
ago. I added the tzinfo-data gem as suggested on some related posts,
but
still no joy. I’m running rails 4.1.6 on ruby 2.1.3p242 under 0SX
10.9.5.
Can anyone suggest how I might proceed from here?

Regards,

Mike

2

Hi Mike,

Maybe the resolver is the issue? Can you connect to 127.0.0.1:3000?

You can also check where the process is binding. On Linux that would be
netstat -ntlp - look for you Rails app there. That may work on a Mac
but
I’m not sure.

Best regards

Greg

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On *nix systems, the file /etc/hosts contains the mapping from localhost
to
127.0.0.1. It should contain a line like:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

I do not know whether or not Mac uses the same file.