Change default index page

Rails
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Hello,
Not sure if anyone can help me here. I have a page which I want to
make it the index page.

The page is http://www.myweb.com:3000/bin/myindex.mxml.

Yes, you can probably tell it’s a Adobe Flex component - myindex.mxml.
I’m combining Flex and RubyOnRails.

My question is: Is there a way to make that the default page to
display when people browse to http://www.myweb.com:3000/.

Apreciate if anyone could help.

Regards,
Jay

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Jacob Y. wrote:

Hello,
Not sure if anyone can help me here. I have a page which I want to
make it the index page.

The page is http://www.myweb.com:3000/bin/myindex.mxml.

Yes, you can probably tell it’s a Adobe Flex component - myindex.mxml.
I’m combining Flex and RubyOnRails.

My question is: Is there a way to make that the default page to
display when people browse to http://www.myweb.com:3000/.

Apreciate if anyone could help.

Regards,
Jay

Define a default route in routes.rb

ie
map.root ‘/bin/myindex.mxml’

…at least, thats how you would define a default controller/action as
the root, so I think it will probably apply to a static resource.

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Not sure that the previous solution will work.

If the page is dynamic then, point root to the right controller and
action.
map.root :controller => ‘yourcontroller’, :action => ‘youraction’

If it’s static then you’ll better think twice if you need it, and if
you realy need then try one of the following things:

  1. Symlink it to the /index.html
  2. Try Apache DirectoryIndex, or nginx index directives, although I’m
    not sure that they allow setting the default page in another
    directory.
  3. Use URL rewriting on the webserver level

Dmitry