# Instant Rails and Shared Web Server

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-and-shared-web-server/83496>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [January 26, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-and-shared-web-server/83496 "2007-01-26T17:54:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/instant-rails-and-shared-web-server/83496/1 "2007-01-26T17:54:57Z")

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I provide technical support in an educational environment.

An Instructor is teaching Instant Rails (v. 1.4), which is installed on  
each student’s XP workstation.

She would like students to be able to ssh and ftp into a remote web  
server and upload their Instant Rails Web Applications to each of their  
home directories on the server. Then via a URL path to the application  
within their home directory, all students would be able to view their  
application.

I have found documentation on how to setup Ruby on Rails in a Linux  
environment with multiple user repositories, but nothing specific to  
Instant Rails.

Is it possible to setup Instant Rails in a similar environment? Any  
information on this subject would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.