# Homepage 404 error - HELP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/homepage-404-error-help/173195 "2009-08-04T20:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GearSSS\_id\_OSCealla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@GearSSS\_id\_OSCealla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/GearSSS_id_OSCealla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/homepage-404-error-help/173195/1 "2009-08-04T20:27:20Z")
Hey guys, I made an update to my website last night (located over at exitmusic.ie). I didn’t change much, just an update to the application.html.erb file - everything looked fine yesterday evening but when I go to exitmusic.ie now, I get a 404 missing page error. I’ve had a search about and most seem to delete the index.html file in the public folder. I didn’t have one initially but do now - just so I can display a message of apology to anyone visiting. The homepage should point to exitmusic.ie/homepage/index and when i navigate to that, the page displays fine. I presumed that issue must have been with the routes.rb config file, but everything in there looks good too: map.root :controller =\> “homepage” I’ve tried variants of this like: map.root :controller =\> “homepage”, action =\> “index” but to no avail. Any help on this ASAP would be seriously appreciated guys. Thanks -ger ---
**Author:** ![GearSSS\_id\_OSCealla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b9bd4f/32.png) [@GearSSS\_id\_OSCealla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/GearSSS_id_OSCealla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/homepage-404-error-help/173195/2 "2009-08-04T21:10:05Z")
seems to be back up and running now - weird! is there a chance that it takes a while for a server to recognise changes in the routes.rb config file?