# Deploying with godaddy.... I know **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [June 18, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812 "2008-06-18T20:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bigdaddy71)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812/1 "2008-06-18T20:49:41Z")
I know godaddy is one of the worst hosting companies for rails apps and everywhere I look for help that is all I read about. My client already has a site with godaddy and they refuse to use anyone else so I have to make this work. I have one question. I followed this blog entry on how to host a rails app with godaddy and I am getting the same problem as the two people posted at the bottom of it. I am getting a blank screen when the project tries to load. I have been poking around in the Dispatch.cgi, Dispatch.fcgi and .htaccess files. In the .htaccess file I read the following: # If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive, # then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file. # # Example: # Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public # RewriteBase /myrailsapp When you set up the rails app with godaddy you have to create a symbolic link to your project. Is that what this is referring to? If so, the rails app directory is “rails\_app” so would I use the following: Alias /symbolic\_link\_name /rails\_app/project\_name/public RewriteBase /symbolic\_link\_name This is my first app that is going live and from what I have been reading godaddy is the hardest hosting company to work with. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot, Chris ---
**Author:** ![bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bigdaddy71)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812/2 "2008-06-18T20:51:37Z")
This might help, I followed this blog entry: [http://blog.mcmoyer.com/2007/9/14/running-rails-on-godaddy-a-k-a-how-do-you-keep-a-geek-entertained](http://blog.mcmoyer.com/2007/9/14/running-rails-on-godaddy-a-k-a-how-do-you-keep-a-geek-entertained) ---
**Author:** ![bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bigdaddy71)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812/3 "2008-06-18T21:51:34Z")
Chris, Did you use unix line feeds on your dispatch.fcgi and .htaccess files? Also, what rails version? I haven’t tried to deploy to goDaddy since that blog entry which was rails 1.2 at that point. If I get a chance, I’ll try to redeploy with 2.1. Can you tell from the process manager if you’re getting a fcgi process dispatched? ---
**Author:** ![bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bigdaddy71)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812/4 "2008-06-18T22:04:07Z")
Marlon M. wrote: > Chris, > > Did you use unix line feeds on your dispatch.fcgi and .htaccess files? > > Also, what rails version? I haven’t tried to deploy to goDaddy since > that blog entry which was rails 1.2 at that point. If I get a chance, > I’ll try to redeploy with 2.1. > > Can you tell from the process manager if you’re getting a fcgi process > dispatched? I dont mean to sound dumb but all I have learned is the programming part of ruby on rails so I am completely new to all of this and don’t really understand most of it. Im not exactly sure what you mean about the unix line feeds. I opened the files up in netbeans on my mac and edited the files from there. For the .htaccess the mac wouldnt even recognize the file on the desktop and it wasn’t in the netbeans folder so I opened it in windows using wordpad. The rails version on the mac is 2.0.2 As for the checking if I am getting a fcgi process dispatched, I dont know how I would check this. Once again sorry for being completely lost on this. Chris ---
**Author:** ![bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bigdaddy71](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bigdaddy71)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-godaddy-i-know/140812/5 "2008-06-18T23:38:39Z")
Chris, FYI, The fcgi processes can be monitored from the “CGI Administration” screen…the same place you create the links to your rails app. Also, you’re using a mac so you would have unix line feeds by default. That said, it doesn’t look like rails 2.x apps will run on godaddy without a lot of modifications. A quick way to check this is to change your .htaccess file back so that it redirects to dispatch.cgi. In cgi mode, godaddy gives you a little bit more info. From the test app that I threw up there, it looks like they’re running an old version of ruby/rubygems that doesn’t recognize the “gem” command. This is from the log in the CGI Administration screen: /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/rails\_apps/godaddy\_test/vendor/rails/ activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/vendor.rb:5: undefined method `gem' for main:Object (NoMethodError) from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/rails_apps/godaddy_test/vendor/ rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support.rb:26 from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/rails_apps/godaddy_test/vendor/ rails/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb:31 from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/../config/../vendor/rails/ railties/lib/initializer.rb:156:in`require\_frameworks’ from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/…/config/…/vendor/rails/ railties/lib/initializer.rb:156:in `require_frameworks' from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/../config/../vendor/rails/ railties/lib/initializer.rb:88:in`process’ from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/…/config/…/vendor/rails/ railties/lib/initializer.rb:49:in `run’ from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/…/config/environment.rb:13 from /home/content/m/c/m/mcmoyer/html/gdt/dispatch.cgi:3 Looks like it’s time for a new blog entry!