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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 8, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476 "2008-07-08T11:19:03Z")\
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/1 "2008-07-08T11:19:03Z")
Environment:
Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu)
DAV/2
SVN/1.4.6
PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.1 with Suhosin-Patch
mod\_ruby/1.2.6
Ruby/1.8.6(2007-09-24)
mod\_ssl/2.2.8
OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Phusion\_Passenger/2.0.1 Server
I’ve created several scaffolds that all work, and am trying to set the
root page for this app to default to one of the methods. Here’s my
routes.rb:
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :physicians
map.resources :patients
map.resources :inventory\_items
map.root :controller =\> ‘inventory\_items’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’
end
when I go to my root URI, I get the same old “Welcome aboard!” page.
To make things even more weird, I can modify and/or delete the
index.html page that is being displayed, with or without the map.root
entry, and the _exact_ same page is displayed anyway. I’ve even grepped
every file in this application to make sure there is no other file with
the word “Welcome” in it, and there isn’t.
I’ve restarted apache every time I make a modificaiton to the routes.rb,
just in case it’s caching some how.
It looks like the only way I’ll be able to override the index of the
root of the application is to rewrite the URI in the apache
configuration, to change “/” to “/my\_method/my\_action”.
Anybody else have a problem like this?
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/2 "2008-07-08T12:34:10Z")
> when I go to my root URI, I get the same old “Welcome aboard!” page.
>
> To make things even more weird, I can modify and/or delete the
> index.html page that is being displayed, with or without the map.root
> entry, and the _exact_ same page is displayed anyway. I’ve even grepped
> every file in this application to make sure there is no other file with
> the word “Welcome” in it, and there isn’t.
This sounds like you’re not modifying the files you think you are -
clearly a file cannot be conjured out of thing air
Fred
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/3 "2008-07-08T14:30:57Z")
Are you sure your browser hasn’t cached the page so that it comes up
automatically. I’ve never had a problem like this one before.
Also, and this is for everyone: do we need to specify an :action =\>
when we’re mapping the root?
On Jul 8, 4:19 am, Richard P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/4 "2008-07-08T21:24:16Z")
Despair not! Four hours lost now will mean never having to worry about
the same problem again!
On Jul 8, 1:41 pm, Richard P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/5 "2008-07-08T20:41:08Z")
> This sounds like you’re not modifying the files you think you are -
> clearly a file cannot be conjured out of thing air
>
> Fred
And so it was… (sigh)
The directory in web directory was linking to the wrong app all along…
I was thinking maybe it was something weird about the caching.
grrrrr
Four hours down the drain.
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**Author:**  [@nuxygen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nuxygen)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/map-root-doesnt-do-anything-index-html-cant-be-changed/142476/6 "2008-07-23T13:28:56Z")
You can delete the index.html under public folder, then this problem
never happen again