# How to host Ruby application on godaddy shared server **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [April 13, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945 "2007-04-13T18:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/1 "2007-04-13T18:16:18Z")
Hi All. I am a developer working for Ruby On Rails project. I am trying to deploy my ruby project on godaddy shared server, but i am unable to browse the application and i am not getting any help from the support team of hosting server. Can any one help me to solve the problem. It would be grateful for me if anyone suggest me what to do. Thanks in advance for your help ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/2 "2007-04-14T19:38:44Z")
On Apr 13, 9:16 am, Ranjan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I am a developer working for Ruby On Rails project. I am trying to > deploy my ruby project on godaddy shared server, but i am unable to > browse the application and i am not getting any help from the support > team of hosting server. Can any one help me to solve the problem. It > would be grateful for me if anyone suggest me what to do. I don’t have any experience with GoDaddy’s shared hosting, but I can tell you that trying to run a Rails application on a shared server will lead to nothing but headaches. You really want a dedicated server or VPS with at least 256MB of RAM for even most trivial Rails apps. – Regards, John W. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/3 "2007-04-15T03:49:15Z")
A VPS is not needed for small rails applications, and it would require some knowledge about Linux administration, Apache, Mongrel, etc. I would recommend you to go to [PlanetArgon.com](http://PlanetArgon.com), [Railsplayground.com](http://Railsplayground.com) or [SpeedyRails.com](http://SpeedyRails.com) if you are looking for great shared hosting service. Best regards, Maykel Rodriguez > **[Home - Speedyrails](https://www.speedyrails.com/)** > > Speedyrails is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. We leverage our extensive AWS knowledge to provide exceptional managed services. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/4 "2007-04-15T17:08:04Z")
I agree 100% with John, it’s true that the historic problem with shared hosting is the resources sharing. At speedyrails we have tried to solve this issue guaranteeing 60MB of RAM for every mongrel instance. The number of mongrel instances per processor is also controlled, only around 30 - 35 mongrel instances per processor, guaranteeing a fairly good performance for shared hosting customers. There are always sites with more traffic than others, so in some cases we have had to move some busy sites to servers with lower load, but this is not frequent, with the above constrains our servers have been running pretty smoothly for more than 4 months (we launched our service last November). I think a similar approach is used at RaislPlayGround and I guess more providers are doing so. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/5 "2007-04-24T06:06:41Z")
Ranjan wrote: > Hi All. > I am a developer working for Ruby On Rails project. I am trying to > deploy my ruby project on godaddy shared server, but i am unable to > browse the application and i am not getting any help from the support > team of hosting server. Can any one help me to solve the problem. It > would be grateful for me if anyone suggest me what to do. > > Thanks in advance for your help Not one person on this list has answered the initial question. Regardless of your opinions of negativity – has anyone gotten a rails app running on a godaddy account and if so could you share with the rest of us your magic? ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/6 "2007-04-24T10:31:58Z")
On Apr 23, 9:06 pm, Guest [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Not one person on this list has answered the initial question. > Regardless of your opinions of negativity – has anyone gotten a rails > app running on a godaddy account and if so could you share with the rest > of us your magic? My guess would be that the lack of an answer in any of the places I’ve seen this question asked is an answer in itself. It’s hardly “negativity” to point out the fact that high-volume, discount hosts such as GoDaddy are not a great place to try and run a Rails application – it’s just a statement of fact. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/7 "2007-04-25T01:46:19Z")
I’ve been able to get simple apps to run on GoDaddy…read that as “run” rather than perform. It usually takes up to 15 seconds for the fcgi process to spawn, but once it does, it will run at a decent clip for a while. Steps I’ve taken. 1. Set up the rails app directory in the cgi manager. 2. Freeze rails and any other gems. (I’ve used up to version 1.1.6 on GoDaddy) 3. Upload the project into a subdirectory of the newly created rails app directory 4. In the cgi manager, create the symbolic link to your newly uploaded app. 5. Change permissions on /sitename/public/dispatch.\* to 755 6. make sure the first line of the dispatch.cgi and the dispatch.fcgi is #!/usr/local/bin/ruby 7. Once it works in cgi, try fcgi by editing the .htaccess file again and changing this line RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] to RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] 8. I’ve also been able to use a domain pointer to point directly at the rails app. Just use the domain management control panel to point your extra domain to the /rails\_apps/sitename/public directory. Lest you think I’m full of BS :), this little test site is running on fcgi on godaddy’s servers right now. Please be kind, it’s just a test site 🙂 [http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/](http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/) Another important note, is that with GoDaddy, when using a rails app that’s not in the root directory, such as the one above, you have to include the trailing slash in the address. [http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies](http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies) (\<-- no slash) will through an error. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/8 "2007-04-15T09:49:42Z")
On Apr 14, 6:48 pm, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > A VPS is not needed for small rails applications, and it would require > some knowledge about Linux administration, Apache, Mongrel, etc. The problem with shared hosts isn’t necessarily your small application – it’s often the other guy’s big application. There’s simply no way around it; Rails requires a decent chunk of dedicated RAM to be useful. I’m not trying to be a detractor here – that’s just one of the trade-offs you need to be aware of. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the number of places offering decent-but-low-end VPS solutions has increased dramatically with the growing popularity of Rails. There are plenty of places today that offer incredibly affordable VPS solutions, and attaining “some knowledge about Linux administration”, etc. is an investment you won’t regret. If you’re really trying to learn Ruby/Rails (or any other platform for that matter) you also need to understand the environment that supports it. That doesn’t mean you need all of the skills of a great sysadmin, but you should be able to – for example – install a base Linux system and get it to the point of serving a Rails application. If you decide you do want to use shared hosting, I agree with Maykel that you should consider one of the providers he mentioned over GoDaddy. You’ll certainly have better luck with one of them since they have made official Rails support part of their core offering. – Regards, John W. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/9 "2007-05-09T20:34:36Z")
I wouldn’t call it a success…it just barely runs 🙂 Step 5: my ftp client (filezilla) allows me to right click on a file on the server and set permissions Here’s my database.yml development: adapter: mysql database: movielist username: root password: xxxxxx host: localhost production: adapter: mysql database: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* username: \*\*\*\*\*\*\* password: \*\*\*\*\*\* port: 3306 host: [mysql129.secureserver.net](http://mysql129.secureserver.net) The database, username, password & host should all be gleaned from your sql manager app on godaddy. as for the rails\_apps directory. It’s nothing special. It’s something you create in the CGI admin screen of goDaddy. The directory can be named anything you want it to be named. The CGI admin app will automatically throw an .htaccess file into it. The symbolic links are really needed. They just make it easier to navigate to your rails app. e.g. my movies app is actually at [http://www.moyerfamily.name/rails\_apps/movielist/](http://www.moyerfamily.name/rails_apps/movielist/) the symbolic link just allows me to access it via [http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/](http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/) HTH, Marlon ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/10 "2007-06-14T16:27:25Z")
Marlon, Will you please post your dispatch.cgi, dispatch.fcgi, and .htaccess files (.htaccess file for both the rails\_apps and movies directories 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/11 "2007-05-06T20:25:18Z")
Marlon, So far you are the only success story I’ve read about running a rails application on GoDaddy. I’ve followed your instructions below to the best of my ability and have made some success but I’ve yet to get my rails app up and running. Can you please provide me with a few more details. Specifically: Step 5 changing permissions (how do I do that?) Can you provide a sample of your database.yml file (with the password omitted of course)? Step 1 & 4, provide a sample of the example of the rails app directory and symbolic link? Thanks for your help. Robert Hall removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Marlon M. wrote: > I’ve been able to get simple apps to run on GoDaddy…read that as > “run” rather than perform. It usually takes up to 15 seconds for the > fcgi process to spawn, but once it does, it will run at a decent clip > for a while. > > Steps I’ve taken. > > 1. Set up the rails app directory in the cgi manager. > 2. Freeze rails and any other gems. (I’ve used up to version 1.1.6 on > GoDaddy) > 3. Upload the project into a subdirectory of the newly created rails > app directory > 4. In the cgi manager, create the symbolic link to your newly uploaded > app. > 5. Change permissions on /sitename/public/dispatch.\* to 755 > 6. make sure the first line of the dispatch.cgi and the dispatch.fcgi > is #!/usr/local/bin/ruby > 7. Once it works in cgi, try fcgi by editing the .htaccess file again > and changing this line RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] to > RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] > 8. I’ve also been able to use a domain pointer to point directly at > the rails app. Just use the domain management control panel to point > your extra domain to the /rails\_apps/sitename/public directory. > > Lest you think I’m full of BS :), this little test site is running on > fcgi on godaddy’s servers right now. Please be kind, it’s just a test > site 🙂 > > [http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/](http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies/) > > Another important note, is that with GoDaddy, when using a rails app > that’s not in the root directory, such as the one above, you have to > include the trailing slash in the address. > > [http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies](http://www.moyerfamily.name/movies) (\<-- no slash) will through an error. ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/12 "2007-09-04T09:23:13Z")
The CGI admin app will automatically throw an .htaccess file, is it needed to change in .htacess file while deploying rails application ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/13 "2010-08-23T00:44:58Z")
Ranjan wrote: > Hi All. > I am a developer working for Ruby On Rails project. I am trying to > deploy my ruby project on godaddy shared server, but i am unable to > browse the application and i am not getting any help from the support > team of hosting server. Can any one help me to solve the problem. It > would be grateful for me if anyone suggest me what to do. > > Thanks in advance for your help Hi Ranjan, I think this article can help you solve your issues … [http://www.bigbluebrains.com/index.php/2010/08/04/how-to-host-a-ruby-application-on-godaddy/](http://www.bigbluebrains.com/index.php/2010/08/04/how-to-host-a-ruby-application-on-godaddy/) Hamaky ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/14 "2010-09-26T23:24:56Z")
I’ve to agree with John. Shared hosting is nothing but a headache, went through all that a while back. A shameless plug, I wrote a script that makes Rails deployments a breeze. [http://ezror.com](http://ezror.com) If you’re interested I can get your suited with some free licenses and point you toward some good,cheap web hosts. I don’t get referral fee or anything, just good karma I figured. And I use the personally. -sunny Ranjan wrote: > Hi All. > I am a developer working for Ruby On Rails project. I am trying to > deploy my ruby project on godaddy shared server, but i am unable to > browse the application and i am not getting any help from the support > team of hosting server. Can any one help me to solve the problem. It > would be grateful for me if anyone suggest me what to do. > > Thanks in advance for your help ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/15 "2011-02-10T04:38:20Z")
Step by step deploy a Ruby application on GoDaddy [http://wanghaiyang.me/archives/166](http://wanghaiyang.me/archives/166) ---
**Author:** ![ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@ranjan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ranjan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-host-ruby-application-on-godaddy-shared-server/91945/16 "2011-06-15T14:09:42Z")
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