Rails app settings for GoDaddy

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I have a rails application that I am trying to get up and running on my
GoDaddy account. I read an article that I got from this forum about how
to properly set-up my account, but after following those direction I
still get nothing to work. Just wondering if there is anyone out there
that can point me to other resources to get me started or if anyone has
any suggestions on what to try next. The article that I read was:

http://blog.mcmoyer.com/2007/9/14/running-rails-on-godaddy-a-k-a-how-do-you-keep-a-geek-entertained

Beyond that, I not sure what I’m doing wrong - this is my first
adventure into configuring and running my own site, so while I am not a
nooby at rails I am a noobie (very much so) in administrating my own
site. Thanks all,

-S

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Shandy,

If you could give us an idea of what’s happening right now with the
site, I might be able to help since that’s my blog entry :slight_smile:

Common things that go wrong include using Windows line breaks instead
of Unix line breaks, incorrect permissions and such.

Have you tried deploying a very simple site like the blog entry demo’d?

Marlon

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Marlon M. wrote:

Shandy,

If you could give us an idea of what’s happening right now with the
site, I might be able to help since that’s my blog entry :slight_smile:

Common things that go wrong include using Windows line breaks instead
of Unix line breaks, incorrect permissions and such.

Have you tried deploying a very simple site like the blog entry demo’d?

Marlon

To be honest nothing. I set the symbolic link, do the permissions,
upload the app itself, basically do all the steps that are outlined in
your blog and along with some steps that I followed in the
troubleshooting part of the help menus and nothing gets displayed. My
site is www.cottoncandyleague.com. I have set the symobilic link to
league, so I think that means that the app exists at:
www.cottoncandyleague.com/league. There is a permissions error, not I
have set all the permissions so I am not sure where that is coming from.
Thanks,

-S

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Marlon M. wrote:

well, we really have to address that permissions error first. It’s
even a problem in the root of your site. Did you copy the .htaccess
file there also?

I sure did. I tried to put a simple index file in the root to see if I
could get that to display and nothing.

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well, we really have to address that permissions error first. It’s
even a problem in the root of your site. Did you copy the .htaccess
file there also?

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Now I can get it to display the rails welcome page, but still can’t get
it to display my app.

http://www.cottoncandyleague.com/league/

Now I have my apps in a folder called rails_apps and a symbolic link to
my app called league. I’m just wondering if I am typing in the correct
address? Thanks,

-Shandy

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Don’t know if it helps. But check the order and options in the
VirtualHost config if you have access to that or the order in
the .htaccess file.
This is what I have:

[…]
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
Order allow, deny
allow from all
[…]

On Oct 19, 4:51 am, Shandy N. [email protected]

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Just read a thread about “freezing” my app before I uploaded to my
GoDaddy account, and while I tried to freeze my app I got a huge error
in responce, so maybe taht is my problem. I tried soemthing like this:

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-1-6

According to GoDaddy, they only support rails upto 1.1.6, so is this the
correct syntax to freeze me app?

Thanks,
-S