# Dreamhost Deployment Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816 "2006-10-27T09:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/1 "2006-10-27T09:11:55Z")
Hi, After following the quickstart guide in the Dreamhost wiki: [http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Rails#Quick\_Start\_Guide\_August\_2006](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Rails#Quick_Start_Guide_August_2006) and browsing through old posts on this forum, I am unable to install a working Rails application on my Dreamhost account. I have an application with two models and three controllers that I cannot get to work. I even tried creating a simple application with one model and one controller, and that didn’t work either. Has anyone recently deployed a Rails application on Dreamhost? Are there any errors in the quick start guide (linked above) that I need to be aware of? Thanks in advance… Brandon ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/2 "2006-10-27T09:43:12Z")
On 27 Oct 2006, at 8:11 am, Brandon S. wrote: > application with two models and three controllers that I cannot get to > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). I’ve set up a RoR application on my Dreamhost account and it worked OK - mine is at [http://search.chooseyournursery.com/](http://search.chooseyournursery.com/). I have only put the framework in place but it looked just like it looks on my local machine. Are you setting it up as a sub-domain or as a sub-directory? ## Ian. ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/3 "2006-10-27T09:51:07Z")
> I’ve set up a RoR application on my Dreamhost account and it worked > OK - mine is at [http://search.chooseyournursery.com/](http://search.chooseyournursery.com/). I have only put > the framework in place but it looked just like it looks on my local > machine. Ian, I have the application setup on a subdomain, just like yours. The root directory is setup like: [subdomain.domain.com/public/](http://subdomain.domain.com/public/) Did you follow the quick start guide on the DH wiki to get your app up and running? If not, where did you find instructions? Thanks, Brandon ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/4 "2006-10-27T16:17:06Z")
Brian H. wrote: > Please be specific about what won’t work. I’m sure I can help you once > you’ve given me more to go on. > > 1. Did you edit config/environment.rb and set the app to production > mode? > 2. Did you edit public/.htaccess and change dispatch.cgi to > dispatch.fcgi? > 3. Did you set public/dispatch.\* to chmod 755? > > Can you even get the “welcome to Rails” page to display? It’s just HTML > and > should be enough to prove that the subdomain is mounted properly. Hi Brian, I can get the “Welcome to Rails” page to display as soon as I create my new rails app on the server. However, I still can’t get the application to work. Here is what I’m doing: 1. Create new rails app on the server 2. Change instance of dispatch.cgi to dispatch.fcgi in public/.htaccess 3. Set application to production mode in config/environment.rb 4. Run this command: chmod -R u+rwX,go-w public log (from the DH wiki, This command sets the public directory and dispatch.fcgi to not be world-writable (or group-writable, just in case), and the log directory to be writable so that log and crash files can be generated.) 5. Edit config/database.yml with the correct database information. After all of these steps, the “Welcome to Rails” page still displays. If I try to create a new scaffold, I get a mysql connection error: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ I have verified and reverified my database configuration and everything is correct in config/database.yml. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong… please help! ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/5 "2006-10-27T17:33:53Z")
Oh 🙂 That’s easy. You can’t use socket: in your database.yml file. You need to use host: [yourdb.yourdomain.com](http://yourdb.yourdomain.com) Let me know if that needs to be more clear. Your mysql database is on a different machine than your web account so you need to use the hostname of the server, not a socket. ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/6 "2006-10-27T14:19:30Z")
Please be specific about what won’t work. I’m sure I can help you once you’ve given me more to go on. 1. Did you edit config/environment.rb and set the app to production mode? 2. Did you edit public/.htaccess and change dispatch.cgi to dispatch.fcgi? 3. Did you set public/dispatch.\* to chmod 755? Can you even get the “welcome to Rails” page to display? It’s just HTML and should be enough to prove that the subdomain is mounted properly. ---
**Author:** ![deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@deniedlates](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/deniedlates)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-deployment-issues/73816/7 "2006-10-27T17:42:17Z")
Brian H. wrote: > Oh 🙂 That’s easy. > > You can’t use socket: in your database.yml file. You need to use host: > [yourdb.yourdomain.com](http://yourdb.yourdomain.com) > > Let me know if that needs to be more clear. Your mysql database is on a > different machine than your web account so you need to use the hostname > of > the server, not a socket. Brian, Thanks for the help… I was using the hostname of the database the whole time, but it still wasn’t working. I FINALLY got my Rails app deployed succesfully. I needed to kill some dispatch.fcgi processes to get everything working. Thanks again, Brandon