diff --git a/railties/CHANGELOG b/railties/CHANGELOG
index f6dfa85fb3b6d6bb33f2c10e664b2b15cc54c458..9cf4f6c10c80dc8b043bcef93f53da60bee30619 100644
--- a/railties/CHANGELOG
+++ b/railties/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Have the lighttpd server script report the actual ip to which the server is bound. #2903. [Adam]
+
 * Add plugin library directories to the load path after the lib directory so that libraries in the lib directory get precedence. #2910. [james.adam@gmail.com]
 
 * Make help for the console command more explicit about how to specify the desired environment in which to run the console. #2911. [anonymous]
diff --git a/railties/lib/commands/servers/lighttpd.rb b/railties/lib/commands/servers/lighttpd.rb
index a35bc984c7873445e63359dd2bee5efd3b54bcbf..16baf1e367591dcf9b612ee1f8a638a1feed826e 100644
--- a/railties/lib/commands/servers/lighttpd.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/commands/servers/lighttpd.rb
@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@
   FileUtils.cp source, config_file
 end
 
-port = IO.read(config_file).scan(/^server.port\s*=\s*(\d+)/).first rescue 3000
-puts "=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:#{port}"
+config = IO.read(config_file)
+default_port, default_ip = 3000, '0.0.0.0'
+port = config.scan(/^server.port\s*=\s*(\d+)/).first rescue default_port
+ip   = config.scan(/^server.bind\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"/).first rescue default_ip
+puts "=> Rails application started on http://#{ip || default_ip}:#{port || default_port}"
 
 tail_thread = nil
 
@@ -53,4 +56,4 @@
 
 trap(:INT) { exit }
 `lighttpd #{!detach ? "-D " : ""}-f #{config_file}`
-tail_thread.kill if tail_thread
\ No newline at end of file
+tail_thread.kill if tail_thread