Software engineering notes

motivation

• To run the mochiweb dev server

environment

• Mac OS X 10.5

steps

1. follow Bob Ippolito’s tutorial from his blog
2. if your server returns

          exception exit: {noproc,{gen_server,call,  
             [httpc_manager,  
             ...  
   

   when you try to run http:request("http://127.0.0.1:8000/")., start inets with inets:start(). and then run the http request call, as described on Pragmatic Dave’s blog.