mongrel not working - Ruby on Rails

Question

I have deployed my rails app to a live server(linux) and I have successfully installed the the mongrel gems, and I can successfully start the server for my app but when i try to acceess the website on the server i get the error The server at 196.xx.xxx.xx is taking too long to respond.

Is there anything i need to do to be able to access my app on the browser?

Mongrel Logs

** Starting Rails with production environment...

** Rails loaded.

** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins

** Signals ready. TERM => stop. USR2 => restart. INT => stop (no restart).

** Rails signals registered. HUP => reload (without restart). It might not work well.

** Mongrel 1.1.5 available at 0.0.0.0:3001

** Writing PID file to /home/xxxxxxx.co.za/shared/log/mongrel.pid