# Hello! What did I overlook? Newb

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 10, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424 "2007-06-10T07:56:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mason\_Galindo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mason\_Galindo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mason_Galindo)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/1 "2007-06-10T07:56:39Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’m very new to Ruby, Rails, and Radiant and recently attempted a  
fresh install of Radiant 0.6.1 on a VPS I have running CentOS-4. I  
didn’t receive any error messages during any of the installations but  
am unsure how to make the application run. I’m very eager to begin  
learning and using Radiant and will attempt to provide you with as  
much relevant information as possible. Excuse the length of the  
following. It is an output from running the gem list command. The  
following gems are installed. Am I missing anything? Everything  
should be current.

Please note that this is my first time installing Ruby, Rails, Gems,  
basically anything related to RoR or Radiant.

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\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (1.3.3)  
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.3)  
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.3)  
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.3)  
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.2)  
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

capistrano (1.4.1)  
Capistrano is a framework and utility for executing commands in  
parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. The primary goal is  
to simplify and automate the deployment of web applications.

cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.1)  
Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing which affects Ruby  
\<= 1.8.5 when multipart boundary attribute contains a non-halting  
regular expression string.

daemons (1.0.6)  
A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

fastthread (1.0)  
Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives

fcgi (0.8.7)  
FastCGI library for Ruby.

gem\_plugin (0.2.2)  
A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only

gettext (1.9.0)  
Ruby-GetText-Package is a libary and tools to localize messages.

mongrel (1.0.1)  
A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping,  
Nitro  
and Iowa apps.

mongrel\_cluster (0.2.1)  
Mongrel plugin that provides commands and Capistrano tasks for  
managing multiple Mongrel processes.

mysql (2.7)  
MySQL/Ruby provides the same functions for Ruby programs that the  
MySQL C API provides for C programs.

needle (1.3.0)  
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for  
Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor)  
injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to  
provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

net-sftp (1.1.0)  
Net::SFTP is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SFTP client  
protocol.

net-ssh (1.1.1)  
Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.

radiant (0.6.1)  
A no-fluff content management system designed for small teams.

rails (1.2.3)  
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,  
and ORM.

rake (0.7.3)  
Ruby based make-like utility.

sources (0.0.1)  
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

# unicode (0.1) Unicode normalization library.

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After successfully installing Radiant, I ran the following command  
script/server -e production from the root Radiant directory. I’m  
assuming this starts Radiant on the server? This was the response:

=\> Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick)  
=\> Rails application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
=\> Call with -d to detach  
=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server  
\*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000  
\*\* Starting Rails with production environment…  
\*\* Rails loaded.  
\*\* Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins  
\*\* Signals ready. TERM =\> stop. USR2 =\> restart. INT =\> stop (no  
restart).  
\*\* Rails signals registered. HUP =\> reload (without restart). It  
might not work well.  
\*\* Mongrel available at 0.0.0.0:3000  
\*\* Use CTRL-C to stop.

So far so good, right?

I then attempted to access Radiant on the server via the URL that I  
unpacked the Radiant application files to. I assumed that these files  
had to be located into a web accessible directory so I placed them  
in /home/user/public\_html/cms. When I try to access this directory in  
my web browser, I simply receive a default directory listing  
displaying the contents of the directory. No Radiant login screen.

Also, because this is my first time installing RoR and a Rails  
application, I also need to know how to set it up so Radiant starts  
automatically so I don’t have to initiate it manually. So, is the  
reason I’m seeing a directory listing rather than a Radiant page  
because Radiant isn’t actually running on the server?

Thanks for reading. I apologize for lengthy message and hope I  
provided a sufficient amount of information.

Best,  
Mason

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/2 "2007-06-10T08:19:41Z")

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Hi Mason,

Here’s what you need to do to get it all working together:

1. Install as per the instructions on the website - you seem to already  
have the gem installed  
[http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/Installation](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/Installation)

2. Create an application using the ‘radiant’ command  
Let’s assume that you created the application in: /usr/local/radiant (or  
something)

3. Edit database properties and create database in MySQL (or whichever  
one you’re using)

4. Run the instructions for bootstrapping the database

5. Then, start the server in the root directory of the application  
[/usr/local/radiant]script/server -e production  
This starts the server on port 3000.

Thereafter, the site should be up on [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/)

Hope this helps. Once you get past this hurdle and want to start to  
look at creating pages based on an empty website, you can refer to the  
‘Hello World’ article on my blog:  
[http://notepad.onghu.com/2007/5/26/hello-world-using-radiant-cms](http://notepad.onghu.com/2007/5/26/hello-world-using-radiant-cms)

Mohit.

Mason Galindo wrote:

> should be current.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/3 "2007-06-10T08:43:43Z")

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Hi Mohit,

Thanks for your response. Perhaps I wasn’t clear in my first message  
but I’ve already completed all of the steps you outlined. Ruby is  
installed, all gems are installed (I’m assuming anyway. I posted the  
installed gems list so you could verify this), the radiant command  
has been run: radiant --database mysql /home/tspadmin/cms and was  
successful. The database properties have been edited. Database has  
been bootstrapped. Command script/server -e production has been run  
successfully. Now, I’m wondering how I access the admin login page.

Also, why would the site be accessible via localhost? I’m not  
installing this on my personal computer but rather onto a web server.

Thanks,  
Mason

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/4 "2007-06-10T08:47:43Z")

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Mason Galindo wrote:

> Also, why would the site be accessible via localhost? I’m not  
> installing this on my personal computer but rather onto a web server.

Hi Mason,

I wrote those out so that you could just double check.

As for localhost, my mistake - I had overlooked the point that you  
mentioned it’s on a VPS. If everything’s been run and is fine, the site  
should be on [http://your-vps-address:3000/](http://your-vps-address:3000/) The reason for this is that  
running script/server will start Mongrel to serve applications/ web  
pages on port 3000.

Hope this helps.  
Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/5 "2007-06-10T09:07:44Z")

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Mason Galindo wrote:

> Mason

Mason,

Definitely, your radiant site is installed in a wrong directory. It  
should not be running from a publicly accessible directory (that way  
someone can read your password, application, etc.)

I’m trying to see what else may be wrong. You’re sure that  
script/server is running right now?

Perhaps, you can take a look at some of the other deployment guides at:  
[http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/HowTos](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/HowTos)

I think you may need help from someone else on this forum 😑  
Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/6 "2007-06-10T09:24:45Z")

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Mason Galindo wrote:

> Best,  
> Mason

I think someone else should help you out. On the other hand, take a  
look at the guides for deploying Radiant to a any of the other hosts.  
Perhaps, that would help you looking in the right direction.

Cheers  
Mohit.

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/7 "2007-06-10T09:42:46Z")

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Mohit,

Thanks for your help. Nice meeting you. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Best,  
Mason

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hello-what-did-i-overlook-newb/106424/8 "2007-06-10T09:16:44Z")

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Hi Mohit,

Thanks for pointing that out. Now I’m not sure what I should do. I’ve  
renamed the ‘cms’ directory to make it temporarily inaccessible.  
Maybe I should move it to a different location on the server? Where  
would you recommend?

Now I’m stumped. Thanks for your help. If you’re unsure of how to  
proceed, I can wait for someone help to pop in and give me a hand.

Best,  
Mason