# Fix URL redirecting **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063 "2007-02-09T18:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/1 "2007-02-09T18:28:06Z")
I tried posting this once but had problems with Google G… Hi, I watched the rails screencast on creating a blog in 15 minutes. I followed along got it working on my home PC and I then uploaded it to my web host. So I have, /home//blog I had to change some config in the blog app (i.e. production mode, db settings). I then created a directory… cd ~/public\_html/bor And a symlink to point to my blog app… ln -s ~/blog/public ~/public\_html/bor I deleted the blog/public/index.html and I modified blog/config/ routes.rb to contain the following line: map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> ‘blog’, :action =\>‘index’ I did that so when someone goes to [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/) they would get directed to what is the index action in my blog\_controller. Ok, so things are working and I can see my blog posts when I go to, [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/) Now if I click on post I get redirected to [mysite.com/bor/blog/show/1](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/show/1) …and from that page if I click “back” I end up at [mysite.com/bor/blog/list](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/list) …basically all the links look like [mysite.com/bor/blog/](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/) instead of what I hoped to see, [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/). Any ideas? If it helps, my blog\_controller.rb has the following method for the “index” … def index list render :action =\> ‘list’ end Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/2 "2007-02-09T19:53:15Z")
craig w wrote: > I tried posting this once but had problems with Google G… > > Hi, > I watched the rails screencast on creating a blog in 15 minutes. > I followed along got it working on my home PC and I then uploaded it > to my web host. So I have, > > /home//blog > > I had to change some config in the blog app (i.e. production mode, > db settings). > > I then created a directory… > > cd ~/public\_html/bor > > And a symlink to point to my blog app… > > ln -s ~/blog/public ~/public\_html/bor > > I deleted the blog/public/index.html and I modified blog/config/ > routes.rb to contain the following line: > > map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> ‘blog’, :action =\>‘index’ > > I did that so when someone goes to [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/) they would get > directed to what is the index action in my blog\_controller. > > Ok, so things are working and I can see my blog posts when I go to, > [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/) Now if I click on post I get redirected to > [mysite.com/bor/blog/show/1](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/show/1) …and from that page if I click “back” > I end up at [mysite.com/bor/blog/list](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/list) …basically all the links look > like [mysite.com/bor/blog/](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/) instead of what I hoped to > see, [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/). > > Any ideas? > > If it helps, my blog\_controller.rb has the following method for the > “index” … > > def index > list > render :action =\> ‘list’ > end > Thanks! uh huh… simplest solution rename blog controller to bor controller and move it up a directory then read agile development in rails by the pragmatic programmers group. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/3 "2007-02-09T20:21:21Z")
> uh huh… > > simplest solution rename blog controller to bor controller and move it > up a directory …I am reading the agile book now (is there a certain section you recommend for more information?). Anyways, what do you mean by “move it up a directory”? Move the bor\_controller somewhere? The controller is kept in app/controllers, sorry just not understanding what you mean. Thanks for the help though. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/4 "2007-02-09T20:47:44Z")
craig w wrote: > …basically all the links look > like [mysite.com/bor/blog/](http://mysite.com/bor/blog/) instead of what I hoped to > see, [mysite.com/bor/](http://mysite.com/bor/). > > Any ideas? That because it’s all going through the ‘blog’ controller. If you have other controllers, your url would look like: /bor/comments/show/1 /bor/products/new You can setup a custom route that looks like: map.blog ‘:action/:id’, :controller =\> ‘blog’ Now you can do: url\_for(:controller =\> ‘blog’, :action =\> ‘show’, :id =\> 123) Or even better: blog\_url(:action =\> ‘show’, :id =\> 123) and get the url: /bor/show/123 Just keep in mind that if you do add more controllers in the future rails routing will have a hard time figuring out what goes to the blog controller and what goes to the other controllers. This is why its best to keep controller names in the url. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/5 "2007-02-10T05:41:38Z")
…bump… ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fix-url-redirecting/85063/6 "2007-02-09T21:00:23Z")
> That because it’s all going through the ‘blog’ controller. If you have > other controllers, your url would look like: > > /bor/comments/show/1 > /bor/products/new so can I get rid of “bor” altogether and somehow make my blog application accessible, even though it is stored at, /home//blog ? I’d prefer not to even have the “bor” and symlink…but I didn’t know how else to expose blog/public to the web. Thanks.