# Rails, passenger, and images **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 13, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796 "2009-03-13T21:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/1 "2009-03-13T21:02:13Z")
Just switched over to passenger for development and production for my rails app. Liking it so far. My problem is my image\_links, stylesheet\_tag\_links, and javascript\_tag\_links are all adding "[http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) to the generated links. I got around the stylesheet and js links by not using the helpers. I can access my all of my assets directly via [http://dating.local/stylesheets/all.css](http://dating.local/stylesheets/all.css), for example. I used passenger pref pane to render the vhost. It looks like: \ ServerName dating.local DocumentRoot “/Users/steveodom/Development/dating/public” RailsEnv development \ Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog “/Users/steveodom/Development/dating/log/apache.log” I’m not getting any errors in my development.log or apache error\_log Everything should be standard. I’ve experimented with ProxyPass’s but those didn’t help. I’m using passenger 2.0.6, rails 2.2.2 Any suggestions? Thanks, Steve ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/2 "2009-03-13T21:12:46Z")
look into apache access\_log, if there any regular requests to the js/image/css files… I’m using passenger too without any problems… tom Steve O. wrote: > Thanks, Steve # – Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache # [www.meinlschmidt.com](http://www.meinlschmidt.com) www.maxwellrender.cz www.lightgems.cz ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/3 "2009-03-13T21:14:32Z")
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steve O. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [http://dating.local/stylesheets/all.css](http://dating.local/stylesheets/all.css), > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Steve Steve, do you have the following line in your vhosts file: NameVirtualHost \*:80 Also, did you add an entry in your /etc/hosts file to contain the following: 127.0.0.1 dating.local Last but not least, did you stop Mongrel, Webrick, or Thin? -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/4 "2009-03-13T21:50:53Z")
There are not any requests for my images showing up in my apache access\_log where I use an image\_tag. If I handroll the image ref like: ![](https://www.ruby-forum.com/images/icons/add.gif) then it shows up fine. But if I use the image\_tag helper like: \<%= image\_tag “icons/add.gif” %\> …it gets rendered like: ![Add](http://localhost:3000/images/icons/add.gif?%0A1221425550) …and is broken as a result. My stylesheet and js requests show up because I’m not using the rails helpers (stylesheet\_tag\_link). I used preference pane to set it up. I was under the impression I did not have to add an entry in my /etc/hosts file. This is a new macbook where I havent used webrick, mongrel, or thin. Any ideas? Steve ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/5 "2009-03-14T15:15:11Z")
Well, how bout that. It was the facebooker plugin taking control of asset\_host. Only appears to be a problem while running passenger. Thanks for the pointer Brian. Steve ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/6 "2009-03-13T22:01:25Z")
Check your app’s source. Look for anything dealing with asset\_host. My guess is something is prepending this to your image helper, and asset\_host will do that if you tell it to. If you create a new Rails app, you’ll be able to test this out by making a controller and a view. On the view, just link to the rails.png image in the /images folder that ships with a defalt app. \<%=image\_tag “rails.png” %\> If that gives you trouble, then it’s not your code. HTH ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/7 "2009-03-14T16:36:05Z")
@Steve: Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@steveoco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steveoco)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-passenger-and-images/162796/8 "2009-03-15T16:46:34Z")
> Well, how bout that. It was the facebooker plugin taking control of > asset\_host. Only appears to be a problem while running passenger. Should be a problem with anything. I’ve got a facebooker site in development under mongrel and it sets asset host as well…