# Problem with basic routing **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 12, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789 "2010-04-12T12:50:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benchips)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789/1 "2010-04-12T12:50:50Z")
Hi everybody! I am new in the RoR world and I’m currently following the step by step tutorial for creating the basic “hello, Rails” stuff. Everything goes well till I try to display the page through the server. Apparently, I have to go to "[http://webserver:3000/home/index](http://webserver:3000/home/index) to see the page, but the URL doesn’t seem to exist. Here is what you should know : I am using a production server on a remote machine, and I set up the httpd.conf file to go straight to the “Welcome aboard” page when I use the URL “[http://webserver:3000/](http://webserver:3000/)”. This page works fine, but the controller doesn’t seem to understand what I mean by “home/index”. Where does that come from? Do I miss something in a config file or what? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benchips)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789/2 "2010-04-12T13:18:21Z")
how did you run it ? 2010/4/12 Benchips [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benchips)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789/3 "2010-04-12T13:38:50Z")
I guess you not used this commend : rake db:migrate RAILS\_ENV=“test” 2010/4/12 Benchips [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benchips)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789/4 "2010-04-13T08:05:53Z")
maybe the config is errored this article maybe help you [http://www.webmasterwords.com/ruby-rails-mongrel-apache-easy](http://www.webmasterwords.com/ruby-rails-mongrel-apache-easy) 2010/4/12 Benchips [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Benchips](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Benchips)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-basic-routing/186789/5 "2010-04-12T13:52:53Z")
The app folder is located on the server machine, in /usr/local (this is a Fedora installation). I have a root access to the server, but it has been running for 2 or 3 weeks and I don’t know exactly how (a system team handles it). After modifying the httpd.conf, I reloaded the server and it seems to work fine since I am well redirected to the “Welcome aboard” page. Something I should have pointed out : the tutorial uses a default web server provided with Rails I believe (Mongrel). But I am using an Apache server on the remote machine. Maybe it doesn’t know how to redirect to “http:/webserver/home/index” (you should know that the directory “home/index” does not exist, the page I’m trying to reach is “app/views/home/index.html.erb”, but the tutorial proceeds that way). And so you know, I can’t even access to the page using the regular URL (the app/views one).