# Confused on RoR deployment

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-on-ror-deployment/87010>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 25, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-on-ror-deployment/87010 "2006-03-25T09:50:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-on-ror-deployment/87010/1 "2006-03-25T09:50:30Z")

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sorry if this seems to be a dumb question. i just started trying to  
learn RoR this week. basically i got everything running great locally on  
my mac. i have a dedicated server that i’d like to start using ruby on  
rails for but i’m a little nervous about installing it.

the main thing is deplyment in apache. i have apache turned on locally,  
but i think it’s still using WEBrick. i don’t know how to put my rails  
apps in the root and access them without adding “:3000” to the end of  
the domain.

my dedicated server is a php/cpanel/whm setup and i found this tutorial  
on installing with that type of environment:  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoInstallAndRunRubyOnRailsOnCpanel](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoInstallAndRunRubyOnRailsOnCpanel)  
but i have no idea how this changes the way i create my apps. can i just  
run the rails command from any directory and use apache to go to the  
right directory? do i not need to run “ruby script/server” anymore?

i have no clue. maybe there answer is somewhere practically right in  
front of my face, but i’m not seeing it. any help would be tremendous!

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**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-on-ror-deployment/87010/2 "2006-03-25T14:49:27Z")

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Hi!

I know almost nothing about apache configuration, so i also use cpanel.

Install ruby and rails normally.  
Create new user account in cpanel.  
Go to its home directory (NOT to public\_html).  
Run “rails your\_app\_name”. This should create new directory -  
your\_app\_name.  
Now you’ve got 2 choices:

- you can remove the whole public\_html directory and create a link (ln  
-s) to “your\_app\_name/public” and name it public\_html; now you can  
access it simply by “[http://user.domain](http://user.domain)”,
- or you can create the link to “your\_app\_name/public” inside  
public\_html directory and name it anyway you want; this way you could  
have rails and non rails version of the page and access your rails  
version by “[http://user.domain/link/](http://user.domain/link/)”; ‘/’ at the end is important.

You won’t have to run script/server anymore. However i still don’t know  
how to set it up to use fcgi instead of cgi. As i’ve mentioned i don’t  
know much about apache and linux, so there are probably better ways to  
do it, but it works for me.