hello world

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The apache config file is either /etc/apache2/apache.conf or /etc/ apache2/httpd.conf. You might have more virtual host files in /etc/ apache2/sites-available/sitename (which then must be enabled). The file that you added lines to is just the init script that starts and stops apache.

-Kyle

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Thanks for the help Kyle. That fixed the problem I was having. I feel like I'm really close, but now I'm seeing an error 500 with the text:

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

I feel like this is a problem with the routes.rb, but I'm not sure about that. The only change I made to the routes.rb file is I uncommented the line:

map.root :controller => "welcome"

I have a controller: app/controllers/welcome_controller.rb and a view: app/views/welcome/index.html.erb

Does anyone see something obvious that I'm doing wrong? Do I need to configure MySQL with a user / pass for rails? Thanks again for the help.

Mickey

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try it with mongrel and make sure it works [?]

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I have my production environment up and running now. The problem was that I didn't have MySQL configured properly. (I figured for a "hello world" app that didn't require a database, that I didn't have to have the database configured). But the question I have now is how do I encrypt my MySQL password in the config/database.yml file? I can actually view my credentials at:

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/example.com/app/config/database.yml

So anyone can view my password right now! It's a dummy password for now, but still, at some point it's going to be a big deal that anyone can view my MySQL user credentials. What are my options for securing those credentials? Thanks in advance.

Mickey