Deployment on Virtual Host

I have an el-cheapo virtual hosting account with EastSolid who was
feature on the Rails Wiki as being a RoR host.
I’m having trouble deploying my app both on the root and as redirect
from subdomain url.
E.G. http://subdomain.fancytown.com =>
FancyTown.com is for sale | HugeDomains
I check the RoR wiki for any good advice on deployment, but I am still
having trouble with getting anything from my public folder. Does
anyone know of a good tutorial for deployment on a virtual host, using
Apache Apache/1.3.34 , and just access to .htaccess files?

thanks,
bloodniece