Starting Mongrel as Windows service

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Hi, I’m very new to Mongrel and RoR.

I found this command:

$ mongrel_rails_service install -n blog -r c:\data\blog
-p 4000 -e production

But I’m not sure if I’m suppose to modify any of those
commands. Or should I just press enter and leave it as is?

Thanks!

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Justin To [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I’m very new to Mongrel and RoR.

I found this command:

$ mongrel_rails_service install -n blog -r c:\data\blog
-p 4000 -e production

But I’m not sure if I’m suppose to modify any of those
commands. Or should I just press enter and leave it as is?

Hello Justin.

Dunno where you found those commands, but they are not up to date.

This page contains more actual information:

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/wiki/Win32

  1. To install a service, from the root of your rails application, do
    this:

mongrel_rails service::install -N blog

That will create a “blog” service that you can start or stop using net
commands:

net start blog
net stop blog

  1. To remove the service, only do this:

mongrel_rails service:remove -N blog

Notice the use of uppercase N, that changed some time ago due a clash
of parameters between service and cluster. Now is N.

Thanks!

HTH,

Luis L.
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Thanks for the help Luis.

However, I was a little confused since you said I must use:

mongrel_rails service::install -N blog

while the link you gave me says:

mongrel_rails service::install -N myapp
-c c:\my\path\to\myapp -p 4000 -e production

What do the extra parameters do?

Thanks!!

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Justin To [email protected] wrote:

What do the extra parameters do?

you can check for yourself:

mongrel_rails service::install -h

that will give you a detailed list of what means each one.

You can use the -c one if you want to install the service from outside
your RAILS_ROOT.

Thanks!!

You can look for the other ones: port and environment :slight_smile:

HTH,

Luis L.
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