Fix URL redirecting

rubyonrails-talk
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I tried posting this once but had problems with Google Groups.

Hi, I watched the rails screencast on creating a blog in 15 minutes. I followed along got it working on my home PC and I then uploaded it to my web host. So I have,

/home//blog

I had to change some config in the blog app (i.e. production mode, db settings).

I then created a directory…

cd ~/public_html/bor

And a symlink to point to my blog app…

ln -s ~/blog/public ~/public_html/bor

I deleted the blog/public/index.html and I modified blog/config/ routes.rb to contain the following line:

map.connect ‘’, :controller => ‘blog’, :action =>‘index’

I did that so when someone goes to mysite.com/bor/ they would get directed to what is the index action in my blog_controller.

Ok, so things are working and I can see my blog posts when I go to, mysite.com/bor/ Now if I click on post I get redirected to mysite.com/bor/blog/show/1 …and from that page if I click “back” I end up at mysite.com/bor/blog/list …basically all the links look like mysite.com/bor/blog/ instead of what I hoped to see, mysite.com/bor/.

Any ideas?

If it helps, my blog_controller.rb has the following method for the “index” …

def index list render :action => ‘list’ end

Thanks!

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uh huh...

simplest solution rename blog controller to bor controller and move it up a directory

...I am reading the agile book now (is there a certain section you recommend for more information?).

Anyways, what do you mean by "move it up a directory"? Move the bor_controller somewhere? The controller is kept in app/controllers, sorry just not understanding what you mean.

Thanks for the help though.

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That because it's all going through the 'blog' controller. If you have other controllers, your url would look like:

  /bor/comments/show/1   /bor/products/new

so can I get rid of "bor" altogether and somehow make my blog application accessible, even though it is stored at,

/home/<user>/blog

?

I'd prefer not to even have the "bor" and symlink....but I didn't know how else to expose blog/public to the web.

Thanks.

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...bump...