A client of mine has godaddy.com as a web host. I insisted on using
rails for dev, and the client agreed. Godaddy is absolutely horrible w/
their rails support and I have one remaining question. I’ve been able
to deploy the app but they way they have hosting setup I must have the
application below the root directory in some other directory
www.ex.com/useless/
how can I have www.ex.com point to where i have the data. Currently
godaddy doesn’t allow a symbolic link to be created at the root level,
it must have a name. For example useless => real_rails_app_dir.
Any ideas, thanks,
Tom
Tom Hartwell wrote:
it must have a name. For example useless => real_rails_app_dir.
Any ideas, thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom,
did you try setting with base_url or mod_alias?
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSetTheBaseURLsOfYourRailsApps
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Here’s what I’ve discovered…
I can use mod_rewrite so that when a browser hits:
http://www.example.com there is a redirect to
http://www.example.com/directory
http://www.example.com/directory is actually a symlink to the rails
public directory
This works, but the url obviously not written as http://www.example.com
Godaddy does not support ssh so I cannot create a symlink at / pointing
to /rails-public-dir
As far as I can tell from the tutorial you sent out, what I want to do
is not possible with mod_rewrite (which has all of mod_alias’
functionality)
Thanks for the link, though, it was a very thorough wiki article.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom
Bojan M. wrote:
Tom Hartwell wrote:
it must have a name. For example useless => real_rails_app_dir.
Any ideas, thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom,
did you try setting with base_url or mod_alias?
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSetTheBaseURLsOfYourRailsApps
–
Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
→ tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org