# Newbie issue with routes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-issue-with-routes/108934>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 9, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-issue-with-routes/108934 "2007-07-09T18:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@crucoba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crucoba)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-issue-with-routes/108934/1 "2007-07-09T18:23:47Z")

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i am new to all of this so bear with me.

so i am running the rails appliance that i downloaded from vmware. it  
runs rails over lighttpd. i have the server set up so that i can see  
the test app, rforum.test. i used rails to set up a second app  
‘status’. both apps are in my /www/ directory. i have my hosts file on  
my windows machine set up so that i can navigate to ‘rforum.test’ or  
‘status’ and the corresponding site will be loaded. the only problem is  
that i CANT get the splash page to stop showing for the ‘status’ app.

i have tried deleting index.html from the public folder. that didnt  
work. i created a new index.html and when i navigate to  
status/index.html, that page is displayed, but when i just navigate to  
status/ the original is still displayed.

I have one controller(status) and one view(index.rhtml) created. this  
is how my routes.rb script is set:

map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> ‘status’, :action =\> ‘index’  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’

is this correct or is there anything i am obvioiusly doing wrong?  
Thanks