# Radiant CMS on a shared host?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [July 4, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102 "2006-07-04T22:15:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Shajith)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102/1 "2006-07-04T22:15:31Z")

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Hi,  
Has anyone deployed Radiant CMS on a shared host? I am trying to  
install it on hosting provided by [freeonrails.com](http://freeonrails.com) (rails 1.1.2). I set  
up the .htaccess file like I do for regular rails apps that I run  
there.

Problem: I keep getting the 500 error when I try to access /:

“Rails application failed to start properly”

Has anyone run Radiant CMS off, say, dreamhost?

Thanks in advance!  
Shajith

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**Author:** ![Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Shajith)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102/2 "2006-07-05T15:48:01Z")

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In dreamhost add -

host: [path.to.mysqldatabase.com](http://path.to.mysqldatabase.com)

to your database.yml for each database, and don’t forget to make your  
directory point to [yoursite.com/public/](http://yoursite.com/public/)

Otherwise it’s all according to the instructions. I’ve never used  
[freeonrails.com](http://freeonrails.com) before, so I’m not sure what your problems could be  
there.

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**Author:** ![Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Shajith)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102/3 "2006-07-07T08:25:18Z")

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Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the responses, I will check back  
again.

Shajith

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**Author:** ![Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Shajith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Shajith)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-cms-on-a-shared-host/97102/4 "2006-07-05T19:33:28Z")

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I’m running it on TextDrive ([http://www.upstateonrails.org](http://www.upstateonrails.org)). Make sure  
that you dispatch.fcgi (.cgi, .rb) file has the right path to ruby in  
the first line.

–Ryan