Can't connect to localhost:3000

[mike...@comcast.net]

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

[grze...@niewisiewicz.pl]

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

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Greg

[jsnark]

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.