# Replace the default home page **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 10, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872 "2009-07-10T14:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/1 "2009-07-10T14:25:12Z")
How to replace the default home page. I tried map.root but it didn’t work. I should request to please provide me ways. ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/2 "2009-07-10T14:27:51Z")
Delete or rename public/index.html ? Sijo ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/3 "2009-07-10T14:29:18Z")
Hello, First, you should delete the file public/index.html if you want another controller to be called on your home page. Once it’s done, you just have to add the line map.root :controller =\> ‘your\_controller’ (and maybe the action required if it’s not index) to your config/routes.rb and it’s over. Since routes is loaded on your server startup, you’ll have to restart it too. Cyril 2009/7/10 Vikas [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/4 "2009-11-30T23:10:23Z")
Hello, I’ve followed steps 1 to 5 here: [rails.info](http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html) and I am getting 500 error when trying to access [http://localhost/home/index](http://localhost/home/index). The standard welcome page in public worked so I assume the Mongrel is up. - I deleted the welcome page; - Using script/generate I created home/index in app/views; - This is how my routes.rb looks like: ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.root :controller =\> “home” map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’ end - I restarted Mongrel and entered [http://localhost/home/index](http://localhost/home/index) in Firefox browser started with clean session. Result: RoR custom 500 error page. What am I doing wrong? * * * \*\*\*\*\*\*\* Windows Vista \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* c:\RubyProjects\project\_one\public\>gem env RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5 - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32] - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - RUBY EXECUTABLE: c:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: c:/Ruby/bin - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS: - ruby - x86-mswin32-60 - GEM PATHS: - c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - C:/Users/Victor/.gem/ruby/1.8 - GEM CONFIGURATION: - :update\_sources =\> true - :verbose =\> true - :benchmark =\> false - :backtrace =\> false - :bulk\_threshold =\> 1000 - REMOTE SOURCES: - [http://gems.rubyforge.org/](http://gems.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/5 "2009-12-01T01:34:36Z")
I attached the full error in development log. Looks like something wrong with MySQL… ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/6 "2009-12-01T01:29:03Z")
In addition to my previous post. I looked into development log and there is this: Status: 500 Internal Server Error Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) Where is it trying to access user “root” at “localhost”? ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/7 "2009-12-01T05:03:45Z")
Hi Vi Le Assuming you gave details like username,password etc.After that problem still exists try this from mysql konsole GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON _._ TO root@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘root\_password’ WITH GRANT The above you can also setup to any other mysql user than root Sijo ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/8 "2009-12-01T03:58:36Z")
Vi Le wrote: > In addition to my previous post. > > I looked into development log and there is this: > > Status: 500 Internal Server Error > Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) > > Where is it trying to access user “root” at “localhost”? That’s a database connection error. Check your database.yml file. Best, – Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@vikas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/replace-the-default-home-page/171872/9 "2009-12-01T06:50:45Z")
Ok, obviously this is MySQL problem. I can’t even access it via MySQL Administrator. I get: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES). I need to figure that one out first. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.