[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby site structure on Apache

Ezra Zygmuntowicz
2006-02-24T23:25:41Z

On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:34 PM, mark sheran wrote:

> James Ludlow wrote:
>> On 2/24/06, mark sheran <markshen2004@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How to use symlink.I do not understand.Thanks
>>
>> The command is "ln -s".  Try "man ln" or Google to
figure out how
>> to use
>> it.
>>
>> I have to reiterate a suggestion already made to you, which is that
>> you should figure out how Rails and Ruby work first before worrying
>> about all of these deployment issues.  That stuff is so far down the
>> line before it''s ever going to matter to you.
>>
>> Posting several variations of "My server is broke, why?"
isn''t really
>> helping other people help you.  If you have specific error
>> messages or
>> log entries that don''t make sense to you, post those.
>>
>> -- James
>
> ln is a shell command,I know it affect shell command but I do not know
> how it affect URL access.do I have to change someconfig file of
> Apache?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark


OK Mark-

	Lets see if we can solve this for you once and for all. but i agree
with everyone else here in saying that you shoudlnt worry about
deploying to your web hosts server until you are more experienced.
You should use webrick to develop locally and then worry about it a
bit later when you''ve gotten your feet wet.

	As to the current problem of ln-s for the symlink:


Lets assume that your directory structure is like this:  /home/mark/
htdocs  What you will want to do is place your rails application
right inside your home folder liek this:

/home/mark/railsapp

Now you need to symlink your railsapp/public directory to the htdocs
folder of your home dir with this command

ln -s /home/mark/railsapp/public /home/mark/htdocs

Then you should be set up to run your hello world.

Cheers0
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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