Rails - Aug 2005 - Need just a little help to start a rails app

I''m very new to Ruby and RoR, have been trying to get it working with
no
success. I''m on Ubuntu, installed Rails correctly, run scripts for
model,
controller and scaffold no problem, installed fcgi which now appear in apache
header. When I point browser to http://localhost/tada/public/category I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /tada/public/category was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.53 (Ubuntu) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 PHP/4.3.10-10ubuntu4 mod_ruby/1.2.4
Ruby/1.8.2(2004-12-23) Server at localhost Port 80

I think I am missing something in my apache.conf, I''ve added line:
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
but still does not work. What else I need to do

Thanks

Shreko

Did you add a DocumentRoot directive?

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I develop, watch me RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

Hi Shreko,

First you can locally test your application using webrick. Just go to 
the rails directory type ruby script\server and it will start the 
webrick server which normally uses port 3000. Then open a browser and 
type http://localhost:3000/tada (if you have a controller or a view 
named Tada) or type http://localhost:3000/<yourcontrollername> it should 
show you the scaffold directly.

Vikrant


shreko wrote:
> I''m very new to Ruby and RoR, have been trying to get it working
with no
> success. I''m on Ubuntu, installed Rails correctly, run scripts for
model,
> controller and scaffold no problem, installed fcgi which now appear in
apache
> header. When I point browser to http://localhost/tada/public/category I
get:
> Not Found
> The requested URL /tada/public/category was not found on this server.
> Apache/2.0.53 (Ubuntu) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 PHP/4.3.10-10ubuntu4
mod_ruby/1.2.4
> Ruby/1.8.2(2004-12-23) Server at localhost Port 80
> 
> I think I am missing something in my apache.conf, I''ve added line:
> AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
> but still does not work. What else I need to do
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Shreko

To be more specific, set DocumentRoot to the full path to the
"public" subdirectory of your Rails app, then point your
browser to http://localhost/tada/[controller]/[action] ,
or just http://localhost/tada/[controller] for the index action.

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I develop, watch me RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

shreko <beltspeed@...> writes:

Thanks guys for your help. I did get it working with webrick, but I would still
like to see how it runs under apache-fcgi. For starter, webrick will be OK.
Now on suggestion to set DocumentRoot to public dir of my tada app. If currently
my DocumentRoot is /var/www and I switch it to /var/www/tada/public what about
my existing php apps that are in /var/www?



Thanks,

Shreko

Shreko wrote:
> Now on suggestion to set DocumentRoot to public dir of my tada app. If
currently
> my DocumentRoot is /var/www and I switch it to /var/www/tada/public what
about
> my existing php apps that are in /var/www?
Access your rails app via another host name alised to localhost, and set up
Apache name-based hosting on this name using the rails DocumentRoot.

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on 8/11/2005 7:31 AM Mark Reginald James said the following:
> Shreko wrote:
>
>> Now on suggestion to set DocumentRoot to public dir of my tada app. 
>> If currently
>> my DocumentRoot is /var/www and I switch it to /var/www/tada/public 
>> what about
>> my existing php apps that are in /var/www?
>
>
> Access your rails app via another host name alised to localhost, and 
> set up
> Apache name-based hosting on this name using the rails DocumentRoot.
Don''t change the document root unless you are only running a single 
rails application on the domain.. You could use a subdomain, but it is 
easier to use an Alias directive and the same host.

Alias /tada/ /var/www/tada/public

Points any hits on http://www.example.com/tada/ will to the 
corresponding files in /var/www/tada/public/

In the example that Shreko gave, DocumentRoot /var/www, means that 
http://www.example.com/tada/public is accessible. Was that a typo for 
/var/www/html?

Ray