# How can i deploy radiant application to sub-directory? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 26, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672 "2010-11-26T07:53:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/1 "2010-11-26T07:53:06Z")
Hello~ I’ m trying to deploy my radiant web application with use sub-directory just like below localhost/ localhost/dictionary so i’ve tried to search how to deploy in sub directory in everywhere then i got some clues about change config/enviroment.rb to add below line config.action\_controller.relative\_url\_root = “/dictionary” and it’s simply works nevertheless it’s not change about public path, it’s not that story I mean under public path’s image files or css files are stil in that path -\> public/image.jpg also it has got one more problem that can’t be shown files under assets path so when i access to admim page, every css and image files were not be shown but still my site was normal, only have problem in admin page my env is ruby - 1.8.7 radiantcms - 0.9.1 anyone can help me please? Ill thank you in little clue! with Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/2 "2010-11-27T00:49:13Z")
What you’ve discovered is unfortunately one of Radiant’s shortcomings. Radiant expects to be deployed at the root of your particular domain. If you want to deploy it into a subdirectory, there is no easy way. You gonna have to update a lot of files to point to the new subdirectory (things like css, js, and many others). It’s not hard, just time consuming and error prone. My recommendation: If you can, deploy radiant to a subdomain instead of a subdirectory. For example to [dictionary.yourdomain.com](http://dictionary.yourdomain.com) instead of [yourdomain.com/](http://yourdomain.com/) dictionary – swartz ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/3 "2010-11-27T02:29:05Z")
Hi Swartz, On 27/11/2010 7:48 AM, swartz wrote: > If you can, deploy radiant to a subdomain instead of a subdirectory. > > For example to [dictionary.yourdomain.com](http://dictionary.yourdomain.com) instead of [yourdomain.com/](http://yourdomain.com/) > dictionary > The Bitnami Radiant stack is configured to work off domain/radiant - you > may be able to get it working if you take a look at that. This is on Radiant 0.8.1 - [http://bitnami.org/stack/radiant](http://bitnami.org/stack/radiant) You can get an Ubuntu or OpenSuse image there (OpenSuse was easier for me with Virtualbox). Cheers, Mohit. 27/11/2010 | 9:26 AM. ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/4 "2010-11-27T09:44:36Z")
Why wouldn’t a web-server-level (e.g. Apache) rewrite work? Thanks, Fima ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/5 "2010-11-29T02:28:07Z")
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Ahn [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > anyone teach me what is this mean? actually I tried to search about > this, and I’ve got nothing… > > thank you again! I made changes so that the paths were not hard-coded to begin with the root (in other words, it uses the relative\_url\_root). I had asked for some feedback on the mailing list for anyone who was interested in deploying to a sub-directory but received none. I personally have no need for this feature. If you can contribute bug reports or fixes, it would be appreciated; I must have missed something. ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/6 "2010-11-29T02:14:59Z")
Thank you so much for replying. I should use sub domain instead sub directory. but I have still wonder about sub directory cuz I saw it’s possible to use sub directory in radiant cms website [http://radiantcms.org/blog/archives/2010/06/25/radiant-0-9-0---refraction-release/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/archives/2010/06/25/radiant-0-9-0---refraction-release/) (You can now run Radiant from a sub-directory. by Jim G.) anyone teach me what is this mean? actually I tried to search about this, and I’ve got nothing… thank you again! ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/7 "2010-11-29T04:00:44Z")
Thanks to reply Jim. my pleasure and sorry for disturbing. Actually, It’s working that you made. but the problem is setting I did. when I write config.action\_controller.relative\_url\_root = “/dictionary” in enviroment.rb it works just fine, but when I access to admin page, I could see no css and image files it maybe also change assets path to /dictionary, but there is no /dictionary path physically. so I tried link by follow command -\> ln -s /webapps/mycook/public /webapps/mycook/public/dictionary from that, it works fine! my question is, is this best way I can? and is this correct way in radiantcms? that’s all~ anyway I think I solve this problem from kindness people thanks a lot 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ahn\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ahn_B)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-deploy-radiant-application-to-sub-directory/199672/8 "2010-11-29T15:37:46Z")
What about a simple .htaccess rewrite rule? Something like: RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} !^/dictionary [NC] RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ /dictionary/$1 [QSA,L,NC] Note: The above is untested. * * * From: Ahn B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Sent: Sun, November 28, 2010 9:59:40 PM Subject: Re: [Radiant] Re: How can i deploy radiant application to sub-directory? Thanks to reply Jim. my pleasure and sorry for disturbing. Actually, It’s working that you made. but the problem is setting I did. when I write config.action\_controller.relative\_url\_root = “/dictionary” in enviroment.rb it works just fine, but when I access to admin page, I could see no css and image files it maybe also change assets path to /dictionary, but there is no /dictionary path physically. so I tried link by follow command → ln -s /webapps/mycook/public /webapps/mycook/public/dictionary from that, it works fine! my question is, is this best way I can? and is this correct way in radiantcms? that’s all~ anyway I think I solve this problem from kindness people thanks a lot 🙂