Can Rails and PHP work together?

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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

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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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did you see this http://www.igvita.com/2007/07/04/integrating-wordpress-and-rails/

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Wayne Molina wrote:

blogs.mydomain.com/blog_name <http://blogs.mydomain.com/blog_name&gt;\.

Is there any way that I can tell Rails NOT to try and parse these URLs?

No. You must tell mommy to separate these children's toys. Configure your web server itself (Apache or whatever) to route certain paths to PhP and others to Rails.