Can Rails and PHP work together?

Wayne Molina
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:33:00 -0000

Hello everyone,

I am new to RoR, coming from an ASP.NET background.  I''m currently
working
on a politically-themed social network, and I want to have multiple bloggers
who will blog about various topics.  My web host offers several PHP-based
blogging engines, and I like WordPress, so I am trying to set it up with a
subdomain such as blogs.mydomain.com/blog_name.  However, I''m getting
Rails
errors because the URL uses the same conventions as Rails, and it''s
trying
to interpret it as a Rails application, so it''s not finding a
controller or
view.

Is there any way that I can tell Rails NOT to try and parse these URLs?  I
mean, I could easily just tack on index.php to the URL, and it seems to work
properly, but I''m sure I won''t always remember it, and I doubt
the bloggers
will, either (I want to give them some degree of autonomy with their blogs).

Can anyone provide suggestions?

Regards,

Wayne M.
Co-founder, LibertyTruth.org