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Asked: 2026-06-14T12:24:48+00:00

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a rails application, that I would

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I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I have a rails application, that I would like to start on boot. Also if I start the server from console like

cd <path of the application>
rails s -p 3000

I will have to keep the console open, else the application will end as soon as I end the terminal.

Second to access the application I will have to access localhost:3000. I would rather like to have access it with a proper name like localhost/myapp or just myapp in browser.

First, is it possible? How do I do that?

PS: I already have some PHP applications running on Apache. I would not like to mess with the default 80 / 8080 port.

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    Edit /etc/hosts to add

    127.0.0.1 myapp

    Also, start with rails s -p 80 if you don’t want to specify the 3000 port in the browser. This can interfere with an Apache process already listening to the 80 port.

    EDIT : To make it work with Apache :

    Let the Rails app on the 3000 port and enable mod proxy for Apache, in order to ProxyPass requests incoming to the myapp host.

    There is several examples here : httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html

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