# Silly question about running from a directory? **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [August 18, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396 "2007-08-18T10:37:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/1 "2007-08-18T10:37:33Z")
Hi Everyone, Just a silly question. I was wondering if Radiant can be run from a sub-directory (not a subdomain or as the main site of a domain). I installed it to [http://example.com/radiant](http://example.com/radiant) and it starts up fine. But, when I log in to the admin area and click on the layouts tab, it wants to take me to [http://example.com/admin/layouts](http://example.com/admin/layouts) rather than [http://example.com/radiant/admin/layouts](http://example.com/radiant/admin/layouts) If I type it as [http://example.com/radiant/admin/layouts](http://example.com/radiant/admin/layouts) it takes me to the correct page. Am I missing something simple? Cheers, Mohit. 8/18/2007 | 4:36 PM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/2 "2007-08-20T04:52:32Z")
Sorry to bother you again, but is there any advice for me? Cheers, Mohit. 8/20/2007 | 10:50 AM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/3 "2007-08-20T16:38:20Z")
yes, not built for it. Start by playing with routes.rb ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/4 "2007-08-20T05:44:34Z")
I recall some questions about this a few months ago and the answer was that Radiant was not built for this. That’s not to say that it’s not possible, but I don’t know enough at the moment to help. You may get a better answer from someone else. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/5 "2007-08-21T02:55:49Z")
Hi Jim and Jacob Thanks for the clarification. Cheers, Mohit. 8/21/2007 | 8:54 AM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 7:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/6 "2007-08-21T07:42:14Z")
possible solution is to get your separate projects working behind a proxy server such as nginx. there you can easily setup proxying requests from [http://your.domain.com/](http://your.domain.com/) to your main instance of Rails and [http://your.domain.com/site/](http://your.domain.com/site/) to your Radiant instance. nginx is also very fast(fastest?) server at handling multiple requests and giving out static files so you can for example setup your server in such way that it will return everything from /javascripts/ , /images/ , /stylesheets/ or even a cached pages \*.html without passing those requests to your Rails or Radiant application. check this out: [http://brainspl.at/xen\_and\_the\_art\_of\_rails\_deployment.pdf](http://brainspl.at/xen_and_the_art_of_rails_deployment.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/silly-question-about-running-from-a-directory/112396/7 "2007-08-21T09:00:24Z")
Hi Keymone, Thanks for the detailed description. I’m on a shared host right now, so nginx won’t be an option yet. But I shall try out some of this on my development PC to get a better feel of things. Cheers, Mohit. 8/21/2007 | 2:57 PM.