# routing problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routing-problem/36396 "2008-11-16T02:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![isabisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e7dd6/32.png) [@isabisa](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/isabisa)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routing-problem/36396/1 "2008-11-16T02:43:08Z")
Hi everyone, Please have patience with me if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to Ruby and very new to RoR. Basically, I have created a simple scaffold for recipes. It worked just fine on my local computer, I uploaded it to my server, did a database migration - everything transferred great. The problem comes when trying to link to any pages other than index. The only thing I have changed in my routes.rb file is that I added this line: map.root :controller =\> "recipes" So if you go to: [http://roadking.homelinux.net/~alisah/cookbook/](http://roadking.homelinux.net/~alisah/cookbook/) It loads the index page from the controller. But the 'new recipe' link that was created through the scaffold no longer works... How do I go about fixing this? It looks like it's trying to load /~alisah/cookbook/recipes/new so I tried /~alisah/ cookbook/new and that doesn't work either. Also, when I comment out the map.root line in the routes.rb file, going to this link doesn't work at all: [http://roadking.homelinux.net/~alisah/cookbook/recipes](http://roadking.homelinux.net/~alisah/cookbook/recipes) I thought that routes.rb was supposed to resolve requests like that through the default routes of map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'? Keep in mind that all of this worked great on my local computer! The server is running Apache2, Passenger, and Rails 2.1.2. I have searched and searched and not been able to find anything about this. Someone please help! -Alisa