# Problem with root **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [November 24, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904 "2014-11-24T18:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/1 "2014-11-24T18:10:52Z")
Hi All, I'm new in the ruby on rails world. I would like to ask you about any advice according to this problem I'm having problems with redirection, I have this line in the routes.rb root :to =\> 'welcome#index', :as =\> 'home' in the app/controllers folder I have welcome\_controller.rb and in the views/welcome/index.html.erb file but when I use [http://my.domain.com/](http://my.domain.com/) I have the 404 page. but if I use [http://my.domain.com/login](http://my.domain.com/login), it does work. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_FB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/jason_fb/32/826_2.png) [@Jason\_FB](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Jason_FB)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/2 "2014-11-24T18:15:25Z")
show us what happens when you run tail -f log/development.log in a console window _ **while** _ you hit the page in your browser ---
**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/3 "2014-11-24T18:26:33Z")
Hi Jason, using this tail -f log/development.log, and then requesting the domain, it does not show anything, but in the log of the site it does have these messages: Started GET "/index.html" for 192.222.129.185 at 2014-11-24 12:47:46 -0500 ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/index.html"):   actionpack (3.2.19) lib/action\_dispatch/middleware/debug\_exceptions.rb:21:in `call'   actionpack (3.2.19) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb:56:in `call'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:32:in `call_app'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `block in call'   activesupport (3.2.19) lib/active\_support/tagged\_logging.rb:22:in `tagged'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `call'   actionpack (3.2.19) lib/action\_dispatch/middleware/request\_id.rb:22:in `call'   rack (1.4.5) lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:21:in `call'   rack (1.4.5) lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call'   activesupport (3.2.19) lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:72:in `call'   rack (1.4.5) lib/rack/lock.rb:15:in `call'   actionpack (3.2.19) lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:63:in `call'   rack-cache (1.2) lib/rack/cache/context.rb:136:in `forward'   rack-cache (1.2) lib/rack/cache/context.rb:245:in `fetch'   rack-cache (1.2) lib/rack/cache/context.rb:185:in `lookup'   rack-cache (1.2) lib/rack/cache/context.rb:66:in `call!'   rack-cache (1.2) lib/rack/cache/context.rb:51:in `call'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/engine.rb:484:in `call'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/application.rb:231:in `call'   railties (3.2.19) lib/rails/railtie/configurable.rb:30:in `method\_missing'   passenger (4.0.53) lib/phusion\_passenger/rack/thread\_handler\_extension.rb:74:in `process_request'   passenger (4.0.53) lib/phusion_passenger/request_handler/thread_handler.rb:141:in `accept\_and\_process\_next\_request'   passenger (4.0.53) lib/phusion\_passenger/request\_handler/thread\_handler.rb:109:in `main_loop'   passenger (4.0.53) lib/phusion_passenger/request_handler.rb:455:in `block (3 levels) in start\_threads' Jason Fb wrote in post #1163214: ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/walterdavis/32/705_2.png) [@walterdavis](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/4 "2014-11-24T18:37:27Z")
What does the Apache conf file look like for this host? Apache is trying to tack an auto-index on this page, which is messing with the route passed in from Passenger. Here's a snippet from one of mine -- note the -Indexes directive. Does yours have that?   \     Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews     AllowOverride All     Order allow,deny     allow from all   \ Walter ---
**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/5 "2014-11-24T18:44:43Z")
Hi Walter this is mine: \     ServerName my.domain.com     DocumentRoot /var/www/     ErrorLog logs/redmine\_error\_log    \     Options -MultiViews Indexes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     AllowOverride all    \ \ if I set -Indexes, the site does not work at all. Walter Davis wrote in post #1163219: ---
**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/problem-with-root/69904/6 "2014-11-24T19:10:53Z")
I got the solution of the problem, in the .htaccess file I had this rule RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] I comment it and now it works like a charm. Thank you! Francisco Bereciartu wrote in post #1163221: