Re: Can Rails and PHP work together?

gene tani
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:04:30 -0000

On Feb 19, 7:41 pm, "s.ross"
<cwdi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Wayne Molina wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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,
>
> Personally, I''d create an Apache virtual host for
blogs.mydomain.com
> and set the DocumentRoot to wherever you need your PHP app to live.

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