[Mongrel] Can you make Mongrel listen on a specific IP

[Roy Nicholson]

John Nestoriak wrote:
> Shared hosting environment where each domain has it's own IP. Some use
> mongrel server to run their rails apps. Mongrels of course listen on
> their own port. But ...
>
> If client1.com has a mongrel listening on 12001 you can go to
> client2.com:12001 and see client1's site.
>
> Not a huge issue but it's kinda funky.
>
> I don't see an ip in mongrel's startup options but perhaps I'm missing a
> way to get the mongrel server to only listen on a specific ip address.
>
> Or has anyone else run into this and come up with a good solution?
>   
The --address /-a option sounds like what you're looking for.

mongrel_rails start --help
...
-a, --address ADDR               Address to bind to
...

usage example: mongrel_rails start --address 127.0.0.1 -p 12001