Re: GoDaddy deployment

Craig White
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:42:59 -0000

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 13:40 -0700, icewoman wrote:
> I''m stuck with my deployment on a Premium GoDaddy Web Hosting
> account.  I have read every hint I can find in this group and through
> Googling.  That''s gotten me to the point that I can see the
index.html
> page in the public directory.  For both a real app and a simple test
> app.  When I try to run a test app, I get a 404 page.  When I click on
> "About your application''s environment," I get the rails
standard page
> not found.
>
> GoDaddy support tells me that they checked my site with a cookbook
> app, and it works.  They refuse to share the code, though.
>
> I think it''s something basic, though.  I can''t even get
the simple
> apps to show up on the list of rails apps in the GoDaddy CGI_admin
> console to create a symlink.
>
> I could really, really use a copy of a simple app that''s working
on
> GoDaddy (and the .htaccess files, just to to be sure.)
>
> I''m desperate.  I''ve already paid for several years of
the service.  I
> even paid a company to deploy my app on GoDaddy.  They took my money
> and didn''t do it.  I''m embarrassed to say how much of my
money they
> took...
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I think you need to look at the apache logs and the
''production'' logs on
what is already in place to figure out why it''s not working.

It''s not normal to have an ''index.html'' page on a
functional web
site...you would handle the default page via routes.rb

Craig