Getting Mongrel to run on windows

[ikeo]

Wondering if anyone can give me a hand here.

I followed the instructions here
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/

and then here
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/win32.html

here is the cmd line instruction I used

mongrel_rails service::install -N myapp \ -c C:\HTDOCS\myapp -p 4000 -e production

That installed myapp as a service (I can see it in the services console)

However ... when I try to run

mongrel_rails service::start -N myapp

I get this error

** Ruby version is up-to-date; cgi_multipart_eof_fix was not loaded
ERROR RUNNING 'service::start': Plugin /service::start does not exist in category /commands

Now ... I'm able to start the service from the services console
but when I go to http://localhost:4000 or even http://0.0.0.0:4000 my app does not load. I get an error page.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[ReggieB]

I've found mongrel to work well on Windows systems. XP, Vista and 2003. The part of your script that I would question is:

-c C:\HTDOCS\myapp

Ruby is case sensitive (even though most Window systems are not). I think that code should all be lower case:

-c c:\htdocs\myapp