# Dreamhost & Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-rails/181664>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 15, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-rails/181664 "2010-01-15T16:24:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dwdw)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-rails/181664/1 "2010-01-15T16:24:17Z")

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Hello, I want to start my app in dreamhost but it’s impossible!! I  
emailed with support team, and I chatted with them, but every solutions  
was the same that I did.

I create an app in SSH:

$ script/generate controller home index

I have to create manually the files .htacces and dispatch.fcgi.

I changed databases.yml with my database configuration.

I went to my homepage and I see the message “Welcome aboard” of Rails.  
Then, I deleted the index in public folder and chaged routes.rb and the  
result in my homepage was:

Index of /aplicacion/public

```
  Name Last modified Size Description
  Parent Directory -
  404.html 14-Jan-2010 16:27 947
  500.html 14-Jan-2010 16:27 948
  dispatch.fcgi 14-Jan-2010 16:31 380
  favicon.ico 14-Jan-2010 16:27 0
  images/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -
  javascripts/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -
  robots.txt 14-Jan-2010 16:27 204
  stylesheets/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -

```

Support team only says “see the wiki” but I followed everything! ☹

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**Author:** ![dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dwdw)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-rails/181664/2 "2010-01-15T21:12:12Z")

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Jorge Fernandez  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> I changed databases.yml with my database configuration.  
> 500.html 14-Jan-2010 16:27 948  
> dispatch.fcgi 14-Jan-2010 16:31 380  
> favicon.ico 14-Jan-2010 16:27 0  
> images/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -  
> javascripts/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -  
> robots.txt 14-Jan-2010 16:27 204  
> stylesheets/ 14-Jan-2010 16:27 -
> 
> Support team only says “see the wiki” but I followed everything! ☹

Jorge, are you using Passenger with your Rails deployment? If not,  
I would recommend that you do because these files are not required  
for deployment. Next, the path to your public directory should follow  
the pattern:

/home///public

Finally, I would recommend setting up capistrano and including your  
with the deployed Rails application. One can use the Bundler gem for  
this purpose.

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@dwdw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dwdw)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-rails/181664/3 "2010-01-18T16:38:45Z")

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Thanks, it works now 🙂 I tried in fastcgi.