Ok, so I got my web host to install Ruby and RoR for me!
The posted a "testapp" just so that I could see its up and working. So
they created a directory named "testapp" which is in my "public_html"
folder (so it can be seen by the world). Anyways, inside "testapp" is
all the standard RoR folders (app, config, db, etc, etc). So basically
to access their sample app the url is...
www.<url_here>.com/testapp/app/say/hello
How can I get the url to only be, www.<url_here>.com/say/hello or just
/hello ?
Actually, your url with your current setup would be
url.com/public/controller/method. The rewriting is done through
.htaccess and dispatching, not accessing the app folder directly. Also,
with that setup, everyone could go url.com/config/datbase.yml and get
your DB credentials.
I expect that you are on a unix box.
You want the testapp dir to be in the same dir as public_html. In other
words, say public_html is in /home/your_user/public_html, the app
should be in /home/your_user/testapp.
Then you create a symlink. Remove the entire public_html folder. Then,
in /home/your_user do this command:
ln -s testapp/public public_html
There you go, url.com will now be directly to your RoR app.
do I put my_app into public_html? then that causes the problem things
like the "DB" folder being exposed.
Look "Capistrano" up. It automates a system for uploading things to a
server. No more SCP-ing individual files in by hand, setting their
permissions, etc.
To bypass Capistrano (_temporarily_, before you activate it), try this:
- Put your Rails app in a folder next to public_html
- reconcile public_html/.htaccess and app/public/.htaccess
- reconcile the matching public/dispatch* files
- recycle public_html
- make a symlink (ln -s) from app/public to public_html
Now the warning label. ONLY do that as an experiment, along the way
towards installing Capistrano. Once you do, erase the public_html
symlink, and symlink from releases/current/public to public_html.
