# No default .htaccess **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958 "2010-05-21T03:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon780)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958/1 "2010-05-21T03:49:36Z")
Hey all! I just created my first RoR project (following this guide [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/start](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/start)), and I had some trouble getting everything to work under apache with passenger. After some debugging I found out I simply didn’t had any .htaccess in my public/ folder. People around the interwebz seemed to imply there should be one by default, so my questions are : - Why wasn’t there one created with my application? - Also, I didn’t have any problem when I ran my application using webrick. How come? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon780)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958/2 "2010-05-21T12:02:07Z")
On May 21, 2:49 am, Simon C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hey all! > > I just created my first RoR project (following this guidehttp://wiki.rubyonrails.org/start), and I had some trouble getting > everything to work under apache with passenger. After some debugging I > found out I simply didn’t had any .htaccess in my public/ folder. People > around the interwebz seemed to imply there should be one by default, so > my questions are : You don’t need a .htaccess in public for passenger (in fact with an older app that I migrated to passenger recently, the old .htaccess was there stopped passenger from working). It was removed because it was only used for fastcgi which is pretty much obsolete as a method for deploying rails apps Fred ---
**Author:** ![simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon780)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958/3 "2010-05-21T15:52:02Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On May 21, 2:49�am, Simon C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hey all! > > > > I just created my first RoR project (following this guidehttp://wiki.rubyonrails.org/start), and I had some trouble getting > > everything to work under apache with passenger. After some debugging I > > found out I simply didn’t had any .htaccess in my public/ folder. People > > around the interwebz seemed to imply there should be one by default, so > > my questions are : > > You don’t need a .htaccess in public for passenger (in fact with an > older app that I migrated to passenger recently, the old .htaccess was > there stopped passenger from working). It was removed because it was > only used for fastcgi which is pretty much obsolete as a method for > deploying rails apps > > Fred Okay… then let me describe the issue I had with passenger (and not with webrick), I guess the problem lies elsewhere : in the ‘First application’ part of the wiki, you create a table and the correspondent controller and views. I just can’t access this controller, I get an error 500 from apache. Furthermore, when I checked the log, I get this : [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace. [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3063): [client 127.0.0.1] r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /index.php [Thu May 20 21:07:08 2010] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 127.0.0.1] redirected from r-\>uri = /users Also, here’s what I’ve got in my apache configuration : NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:3000 Listen 127.0.0.1:3000 \ DocumentRoot “/home/simon/projet-web/blog/public” DirectoryIndex index.html LogLevel debug RailsEnv development \ AllowOverride All Options -MultiViews Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon780)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958/4 "2010-05-22T05:07:11Z")
On May 21, 2:52 pm, Simon C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > \ > AllowOverride All > Options -MultiViews Are you sure there’s not some other stuff (eg some rewrite rules) that be being used - I don’t see how just the above + your rails app would be doing redirects to a .php url Fred ---
**Author:** ![simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@simon780](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/simon780)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-default-htaccess/188958/5 "2010-05-22T20:49:44Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On May 21, 2:52�pm, Simon C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > � \ > > � � �AllowOverride All > > � � �Options -MultiViews > > � > > Are you sure there’s not some other stuff (eg some rewrite rules) that > be being used - I don’t see how just the above + your rails app would > be doing redirects to a .php url > > Fred That was it! I had forgotten a .htaccess somewhere before the RoR project folder… Thanks!