Rails - Aug 2006 - Setting base url for a rails app

I''ve got a rails app that can be accessed either via:

http://[domain]/
or
http://[domain]/[folder]/

The public directory of the app is actually symlinked at /[folder]/,
and accessible at the root path via .htaccess.

Yep, you guessed it, this is a shared host.

I can''t seem to figure out how to tell rails that the root path (/) is
the preferred site url, so that url_for and related calls will build
links with that path, rather than including [folder]/

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks, greg.


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agiletortoise-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> I''ve got a rails app that can be accessed either via:
>
> http://[domain]/
> or
> http://[domain]/[folder]/
>
> The public directory of the app is actually symlinked at /[folder]/,
> and accessible at the root path via .htaccess.
>
> Yep, you guessed it, this is a shared host.
>
> I can''t seem to figure out how to tell rails that the root path
(/) is
> the preferred site url, so that url_for and related calls will build
> links with that path, rather than including [folder]/
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Thanks, greg.
>
>
> >
>   
I am assuming that you are using lighttpd.  You can use a simple symlink 
to get your site in a subdirectory to play nice.
I go over how to do things at 
http://blog.mattmargolis.net/articles/2006/08/01/rails-in-a-subdirectory-apache-lighttpd-mixed-environment

Basically you just use relative_url_root and

|cd /sites/rails/somerailssite/public
 ln -s . somerailssite

|

|This will get all requests to http://[domain]/folder to hit the public 
folder of your application.|
|Then you just need to configure your lighttpd.conf file to hit up your 
rails application in the subdirectory when you go to http://domain

If you need help with the lighttpd part just ask.
|

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|Matthew Margolis
blog.mattmargolis.net|

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Turns out all I needed was to add this to my environment.rb:

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = ""

Thanks!

g.


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