# Rails helpers are adding extra folders **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 22, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983 "2007-01-22T21:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/1 "2007-01-22T21:14:38Z")
i have a new rails site that i am setting up just like i normally do with all of the other sites. i created a subdomain which is pointed to a subfolder in my public\_html. i can view the site both at [test.mywebsite.com](http://test.mywebsite.com) and [mywebsite.com/test/](http://mywebsite.com/test/) but when i view it by the subdomain, rails helpers are adding the /test/ to all of my resources, so none of my images or style sheets are found. this hasn’t ever happened to be before, so i’m not sure what to do. is there something else i have to add in my .htaccess file? ---
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/2 "2007-01-22T21:42:41Z")
On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Joshua Kieschnick wrote: > i have a new rails site that i am setting up just like i normally > do with all of the other sites. i created a subdomain which is > pointed to a subfolder in my public\_html. > > i can view the site both at [test.mywebsite.com](http://test.mywebsite.com) and [mywebsite.com/](http://mywebsite.com/) > test/ but when i view it by the subdomain, rails helpers are adding > the /test/ to all of my resources By default helpers create absolute paths /images/foo.png So the subdomain is the one that should work out of the box. Are you using custom options for them? – fxn ---
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/3 "2007-01-22T22:14:45Z")
not that i know of. i’ve set up apps on subdomains several times before too and they’ve all worked which is why i don’t understand how it’s prefixing all my links with /test/ ---
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/4 "2007-01-22T22:19:46Z")
just for kicks, i just tried to symlink my app to the root folder and it didn’t add the test prefix, only when it’s accessed by the subdomain. ---
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/5 "2007-01-22T22:33:50Z")
On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Josh wrote: > not that i know of. i’ve set up apps on subdomains several times > before > too and they’ve all worked which is why i don’t understand how it’s > prefixing all my links with /test/ Have you set RAILS\_RELATIVE\_URL\_ROOT? Can you check your rewrite rules, if any? – fxn ---
**Author:** ![jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jjkiesch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjkiesch)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-helpers-are-adding-extra-folders/82983/6 "2007-01-22T22:41:51Z")
i had an admin restart the server, and now the urls are working right. weird. do they get locked in when the app starts even when it’s not in production?