# Rails app settings for GoDaddy **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 18, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637 "2007-10-18T21:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/1 "2007-10-18T21:06:25Z")
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](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 ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/2 "2007-10-18T21:36:07Z")
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 🙂 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 ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/3 "2007-10-18T22:05:40Z")
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 🙂 > > 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](http://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](http://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 ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/4 "2007-10-19T04:51:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/5 "2007-10-18T22:42:53Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/6 "2007-10-19T16:04:05Z")
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/](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 ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/7 "2007-10-19T16:10:43Z")
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. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-app-settings-for-godaddy/117637/8 "2007-10-19T23:25:12Z")
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