# App Error /admin on dreamhost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-error-admin-on-dreamhost/98914>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [July 18, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-error-admin-on-dreamhost/98914 "2006-07-18T23:55:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-error-admin-on-dreamhost/98914/1 "2006-07-18T23:55:43Z")

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Application error (Apache)  
Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action  
(like  
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

Hello Radiant,

I am setting up Radiant on a dreamhost sharing and after working through  
all  
the database learning curve, permissions loveliness and other just  
quirks of  
shared hosting. I now ran into this error. My app runs just fine  
normally.  
But then when I try to admin it from fcgi it crashes. The log files  
seem to  
be vanishing which I tried to fix with little avail. If I run webrick I  
can  
admin it just fine. Why can’t the world be as easy as webrick?

I know there is a recent post on this error so I am not the only one.

Thanks much,

Justin

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**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-error-admin-on-dreamhost/98914/2 "2006-07-19T05:15:10Z")

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Justin B. wrote:

> I am setting up Radiant on a dreamhost sharing and after working through all  
> the database learning curve, permissions loveliness and other just quirks of  
> shared hosting. I now ran into this error. My app runs just fine normally.  
> But then when I try to admin it from fcgi it crashes. The log files seem to  
> be vanishing which I tried to fix with little avail. If I run webrick I can  
> admin it just fine. Why can’t the world be as easy as webrick?

Do you have an .htaccess file in your public directory?

[http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/public/.htaccess](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/browser/trunk/radiant/public/.htaccess)

I made an error while packaging up the 0.5.0 release and forgot to  
include it. If you are using Apache you will need it.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)

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**Author:** ![vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vtphysguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vtphysguy)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/app-error-admin-on-dreamhost/98914/3 "2006-07-19T16:52:41Z")

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Yeah, I made an .htaccess file in public, I replaced it with yours and  
it  
worked…

What’s with that. 🙂 but I am now happy!

Thanks much,

Justin