# Radiant on eApps **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [November 18, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392 "2006-11-18T07:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/1 "2006-11-18T07:36:13Z")
Hi, Has anybody succesfully configured Radiant on an [eapps.com](http://eapps.com) VPS? I have a horrible time following the instructions at [http://support.eapps.com/index.php?\_m=knowledgebase&\_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=108](http://support.eapps.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=108) I just can’t get the routes.rb modifications they are talking about to work. I’m a RoR newbie so the part that is really confusing is that they have a directory structure like: virtual\_domain/ html/ app/ components/ config/ … and they tell me that to add my app (in this case Radiant) under /html and then modify the routes.rb (I’m assuming the one at html/config (not the one under html/app/config). Any ideas? Thanks, Brian ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/2 "2006-11-18T07:42:14Z")
I’m not sure why you have a RAILS\_ROOT/app/config directory? You want to edit RAILS\_ROOT/config/routes.rb Here is more info on routes: [http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/65#page164](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/65#page164) ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/3 "2006-11-18T13:58:32Z")
Hey Brian, You’re right, Eapps instructions are not really helpful. I spent a whole day trying to get a RoR site working with Eapps. All kinds of issues. I understand your frustration. You shouldn’t have an app/config directory. That’s odd. It should be virtual\_domain-\>html-\>config. Maybe you should delete the site and start over - or delete everything under html and run ‘rails newapp’? Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/httpd/error\_log? or /var/log/httpd/suexec.log? -Todd Send direct to me if you want to take this off list and we can report back the solution to the list or dev wiki with Eapps instructions. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/4 "2006-11-19T21:13:19Z")
> Maybe you should delete the site and > start over - or delete everything under html and run ‘rails newapp’? Brian I think this suggestion Todd has is the best. “delete everything” and then create a new rails app right there on your host. Once you can get that working then you can move your code in place. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/5 "2006-12-31T20:42:48Z")
Michael et all, You guys were right it was simply a matter of starting from scratch. The instructions at: [http://support.eapps.com/index.php?\_m=knowledgebase&\_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=108&nav=0,1](http://support.eapps.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=108&nav=0,1) Although poorly written are mostly correct. What they don’t explain quite right is that in eApps the DocRoot is the …/html directory. The setup comes with the plain vanilla RoR app installed there. So you can see the welcome page if you got to: [http://yoursite/public](http://yoursite/public) They recommend installing other Rails apps under /html so you’ll end up with something like: html/ ±-+ror\_app1 +ror\_app2 - … The database.yml for MySQL as shown in the document is wrong: development: adapter: mysql database: \_development username: password: socket: localhost To get it to work I used this: development: adapter: mysql database: radiant\_dev username: radiant password: \*\*\*\*\*\*\* socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Also for Radiant you should grab the dispatch.\* files from a fresh app. It somehow does like that ones distributed with Radiant. After that things should work (except for the whole Radiant in a subdirectory problem for which I’m still trying to figure out a good solution) I’ll put a How To on the Wiki once I get that last glitch worked out. Thanks, Brian Michael J. wrote: > > Maybe you should delete the site and > > start over - or delete everything under html and run ‘rails newapp’? > > Brian I think this suggestion Todd has is the best. “delete > everything” and then create a new rails app right there on your host. > Once you can get that working then you can move your code in place. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Brian\_Sam-Bodden](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Brian_Sam-Bodden)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiant-on-eapps/76392/6 "2009-03-13T14:25:04Z")
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