Setting CWD to be RAILS_ROOT for fastcgi/Apache

All,

So I’ve discovered that when running on FastCGI with Apache and the
working directory for the process is actually the “public” directory
under RAILS_ROOT.

Is there a way to force the current working directory to be RAILS_ROOT
for the FastCGI procs so that file manipulation would then be done
relative to RAILS_ROOT?

Or should I just make sure that all of my paths are explicitly absoulute
by using #{RAILS_ROOT} in them?

Thanks,
Wes

On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Wes G. wrote:

Or should I just make sure that all of my paths are explicitly
absoulute
by using #{RAILS_ROOT} in them?

Thanks,
Wes

Wes-

I answered this in one of your other threads about the same thing.

You have to use “#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/whatever” to access files from
your rails app. DO NOT change the cwd as that will cause a ton of
other problems that rails won’t be able to handle. Just use absolute
paths or even better RAILS_ROOT + “/whatever/path”

Cheers-
-Ezra