# Using adobe contribute on a rails project **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 13, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876 "2009-05-13T15:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/1 "2009-05-13T15:36:34Z")
we are currently trying to allow one of our clients to access and edit some html files on their site via adobe’s contribute. the files live in the public directory of the rails site, and it seems like there is a problem with contribute connecting to the site. it looks like contribute is attempting to find a direct http connection to the file as in: [http://www.domain.com/filename.txt](http://www.domain.com/filename.txt) it seems to want to find the file at the root of the site, but on a rails site, the files lives at: site/public/filename.txt i can’t think of any other problem the connection might be having… anyone have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/2 "2009-05-13T16:51:02Z")
2009/5/13 Colin L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > If the url of the root of your rails app is [www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) then > [www.domain.com/filename.txt](http://www.domain.com/filename.txt) will look in the /public directory. Try > accessing a file there from your browser to check this is working. > Colin On the other hand this may only be true when accessing from a browser, I don’t know how adobe contribute expects to read/write to a file. Colin ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/3 "2009-05-13T16:38:39Z")
If the url of the root of your rails app is [www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) then [www.domain.com/filename.txt](http://www.domain.com/filename.txt) will look in the /public directory. Try accessing a file there from your browser to check this is working. Colin 2009/5/13 Sergio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/4 "2009-05-13T16:58:19Z")
unfortunately, none of the files are accessible by the browser… since they all live outside the of the area served by apache… the app is served via apache… through a proxy… ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/5 "2009-05-13T17:24:35Z")
Colin L. wrote: > The rails project public folder must be accessible, that is where all > the > js, css files etc live accessible as in correct permissions? ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/6 "2009-05-13T17:05:09Z")
The rails project public folder must be accessible, that is where all the js, css files etc live 2009/5/13 Sergio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-adobe-contribute-on-a-rails-project/167876/7 "2009-05-13T17:29:49Z")
Accessible to the browser via http at the root of the domain for fetching javascript css etc. Also the 404.html and 500.html error pages are normally there. Also robots.txt etc. Look in your rails project /public folder and you will see what I mean. All of this may have no relevance to adobe contribute however. Colin 2009/5/13 Sergio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)