So... The fix was this. I know very little about networking,DNS and IP protocol variants, for whatever reason setting my server name to bind to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/ hosts was not working.
Instead either fe80::1%lo0 livewiredmusic.local ::1 livewiredmusic.local worked fine. On Aug 20, 2:14 pm, elliottg <[email protected]> wrote: > Any insight on this guys? > > On Aug 20, 12:33 pm, elliottg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am setting up Passenger on my dev box and I am running into an issue > > getting the ServerName on a vHost to work. The code below allows > > localhost to work as planned. However when I try to pull up the app > > using the ServerName "livewiredmusic.local" I always get a 403. > > > Also, I installed the Passenger Pref Pane just to see if that would > > work, but I get the same 403 using the code it generates. FYI I > > followed Ryan Bates screencast... > > > I gave the app's public dir 777 at one point as well and still got the > > 403. > > > This is my httpd.conf: > > > NameVirtualHost *:80 > > <VirtualHost *:80> > > ServerName livewiredmusic.local > > DocumentRoot /Users/elliott/Documents/***/WebSites/ > > LiveWiredMusic.org/LiveWiredMusic/public > > <Directory "/Users/elliott/Documents/***/WebSites/ > > LiveWiredMusic.org/LiveWiredMusic/public"> > > Order allow,deny > > Allow from all > > </Directory> > > </VirtualHost> > > > Then in /etc/hosts I added: > > 127.0.0.1 livewiredmusic.local > > > Thanks for the help! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

