Public Folder Not Seen

Hi guys,

I’ve been working with rails for sometime and I am having an issue with
the public folder in one my servers (all running fedora 2).

This particular installation seemed like the rest but for some reason
when I create a rails app, the contents in the public folder could not
be seen.

for example: /railsapp/public/javascripts/prototype.js

Whenever I try to call it, it won’t work so I have to paste the entire
js onto my webpage rhtml for it to work.

Has anyone experienced this and know what causes this?

thanks,

Bing