# "public", how to remove it? + htaccess question. Help Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [February 28, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507 "2008-02-28T21:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/1 "2008-02-28T21:20:57Z")
Hi, i’ve a little app which is working without problems, but i’ve a little annoyance. I’m using the cool rest methods, like users\_url, but when i do this the result is [www.domain.com/public/users](http://www.domain.com/public/users), how can i remove the “/public” string to get just [www.domain.com/users](http://www.domain.com/users) ? The other question is about htaccess, what do set in there? do you use just the one in the public folder or do you put one also in the root project folder? I’ve my project in the http\_public (i’m using a shared hosting for now), and now i’ve an htaccess which redirects every requests to the public folder, but in this way i can’t have any other directories in the root, but i’ve to put them in the rails public folder. my htaccess is this: AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ /public/index.html [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} !^/public RewriteRule ^(._)$ /public/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(._)$ public/dispatch.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L] thanks ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/2 "2008-02-28T23:47:15Z")
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:20 +0100, Xdmx X. wrote: > folder. > You may want to set up your DocumentRoot to be the public/ directory. Yours, Tom ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/3 "2008-02-29T14:50:36Z")
Tom C. wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 21:20 +0100, Xdmx X. wrote: > > > folder. > > You may want to set up your DocumentRoot to be the public/ directory. > > Yours, > > Tom Hi, i’ve tried to set DocumentRoot public/ the temporally index.html page has been showed correctly, but when i try something which use rails like [domain.com/other/home](http://domain.com/other/home) doesn’t work: 500 internal server error from apache. How have to set the .htaccess? one .htaccess in the root folder with just DocumentRoot public/ and another .htaccess in the public folder with the standard rails .htaccess, or just one .htaccess in the root with everything in there? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/4 "2008-02-29T16:49:50Z")
Xdmx X. escribió: > > Tom > > Hi, i’ve tried to set DocumentRoot public/ > the temporally index.html page has been showed correctly, but when i try > something which use rails like [domain.com/other/home](http://domain.com/other/home) doesn’t work: 500 > internal server error from apache. Hi, what said [development|production].log?(when show error 500) – Rafael Garcia Ortega ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/5 "2008-03-10T16:09:23Z")
DocumentRoot directive must be in virtual host configuration file. Example: \ ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ServerName [foo.com](http://foo.com) ServerAlias [www.foo.com](http://www.foo.com) [bar.com](http://bar.com) [www.bar.com](http://www.bar.com) DocumentRoot /absolute\_path\_to/public … Regards Xdmx X. escribió: > DocumentRoot public/ > RewriteRule ^(._)$ public/dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] > DocumentRoot public/ > RewriteRule ^(._)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] > > ErrorDocument 500 “ > > ## Application error > Rails application failed to > start properly” > > ############# – Rafael Garcia Ortega ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/6 "2008-03-09T19:02:55Z")
Rafael García wrote: > Hi, what said [development|production].log?(when show error 500) Sorry for the late, i was trying something, anyway… this is the apache error (nothing in production.log): ############# [Sun Mar 09 11:46:58 2008] [alert] [client 81.208.x.x] /home/dom1/public\_html/domain.com/.htaccess: DocumentRoot not allowed here ############# this is caused by: ############# DocumentRoot public/ AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ public/index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ public/$1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ public/dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] ErrorDocument 500 “ ## Application error Rails application failed to start properly” ############# and: ############# DocumentRoot public/ AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] ErrorDocument 500 “ ## Application error Rails application failed to start properly” ############# with this htaccess everything works fine, but it leaves the public referer in the url, and it hasn’t to be there: ############# AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ public/index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ public/$1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ public/dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] ErrorDocument 500 “ ## Application error Rails application failed to start properly” ############# ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/7 "2008-03-10T17:31:40Z")
Xdmx X. escribió: > Is it possible to do it using the .htaccess file? Because I don’t have > any access to the virtual host configuration, but only to the .htaccess > (and I can’t change hosting for now ☹ ) Another solution can be put a symlink from rails\_root/public to /home/dom1/public\_html/domain.com or specify rails\_root/public as domain directory. Regards – Rafael Garcia Ortega ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/8 "2008-03-10T16:57:28Z")
Rafael García wrote: > DocumentRoot directive must be in virtual host configuration file. > Example: > > \ > ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > ServerName [foo.com](http://foo.com) > ServerAlias [www.foo.com](http://www.foo.com) [bar.com](http://bar.com) [www.bar.com](http://www.bar.com) > DocumentRoot /absolute\_path\_to/public > … > > Regards Is it possible to do it using the .htaccess file? Because I don’t have any access to the virtual host configuration, but only to the .htaccess (and I can’t change hosting for now ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/9 "2008-03-10T17:36:27Z")
Rafael García wrote: > Another solution can be put a symlink from rails\_root/public to > /home/dom1/public\_html/domain.com or specify rails\_root/public as domain > directory. > > Regards I’ll try with the last one, because i don’t know if i could have a ssh access. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/10 "2008-03-13T13:22:06Z")
Xdmx X. wrote: > I’ll try with the last one, because i don’t know if i could have a ssh > access. > Thanks Nothing… any way to do this using just the .htaccess file? i can use only that ☹ ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/11 "2008-03-14T15:46:11Z")
Are you confident your host has support for Rails? Xdmx X. wrote: > Xdmx X. wrote: > > > I’ll try with the last one, because i don’t know if i could have a ssh > > access. > > Thanks > > Nothing… any way to do this using just the .htaccess file? i can use > only that ☹ ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/12 "2008-03-15T01:24:50Z")
Rick Martinez wrote: > Are you confident your host has support for Rails? Yes, in the panel there is rails (the hosting is bluehost) ---
**Author:** ![xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xdmx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xdmx)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-how-to-remove-it-htaccess-question-help-please/130507/13 "2008-03-15T13:28:33Z")
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