Thanks to all who replied. To Virender Dogra: Yes, http://127.0.0.1:3000/ shows the Rails application To Curt Hibbs: After clearing the cache, yes, the browser shows the Rails application. (I'm using FireFox, configured to "remember nothing", but obviously I missed something.) To Dave Burt: Yes, there is a Listen 3000 in Apache's httpd.conf. After replacing 3000 with something else, /localhost:3000/ now gives me the Rails application. I'm off and running on Rails (until the next bump). I can't wait to find out what all this interest in Rails is all about! gk