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Butterson wrote:
> So I've written my first real-world RoR app and I'm now getting ready
> to deploy it. Unfortunately, my client decided to use GoDaddy as the
> hosting provider and based on what I've seen so far from the web, it's
> not really the smoothest or ideal hosting for RoR apps. There were
> several posts here that I tried to follow but they were kinda old
> (2008, 2007). Most of them are talking about the dispatch.fcgi being
> in the public folder. Well I tried searching my app for those and I
> found them in the 'vendor\rails\railties\dispatches\' folder instead.
>
> I am hoping you folks have recently experienced deploying an app to
> GoDaddy. I followed the instructions and have already attempted it 3
> times and I still could not get my app to show. I kept getting 'Page
> Not Found'. I'm not sure with what's supposed to be in my .htaccess
> file for ruby app.
>
> Here's what I have right now for .htaccess.
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule !/public/dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Here's dispatch.fcgi :
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
>
> RewriteBase /access
> RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
>
> RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
>
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
> require 'fcgi_handler'
>
> RailsFCGIHandler.process!
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Here's what my environment.rb looks like:
> # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file
>
> # Specifies gem version of Rails to use when vendor/rails is not
> present
> #RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.3.5' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
> RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '1.1.6' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
> ENV['GEM_HOME'] = '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems-dev/1.8'
>
> # Bootstrap the Rails environment, frameworks, and default
> configuration
> require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'boot')
>
> Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
>
> config.time_zone = 'UTC'
>
> end
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> I'm not sure what else I'm missing. I used the GoDaddy CGI Admin to
> create the rails directory where I uploaded my project. This also
> generated the .htaccess file.
>
> I'd appreciate all the help and advice I can get. Thanks.

Must admit haven't tried to deploy to GoDaddy however in the dim &
distant past I used to use site5 which used fcgi too.

Things I remember you need to be wary of:

* Make sure the shebang is the correct path to ruby as this can differ
(the #!/usr/local/bin/ruby bit)
* Make sure your permissions are correct for the dispatch.fcgi &
dispatch.rb files
* In your environment.rb file you'll probably need to add
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production' at the top of the file to force your
app into production mode

Debugging Help (assuming you have ssh access):

* Try cd'ing to your apps public directory and calling ./dispatch.fcgi
to see if your page's html is output or an error message.
* Try 'ruby script/console production' from your app root directory and
doing a find on one of your models to ensure that your rails app isn't
bombing before even getting to the web-side of things.

I'm not 100% sure they are working the same but it would probably be
worth checking out the site5/dreamhost support forums as I think they
used to work a similar way.

Funnily enough just checked; see here - most of this is probably
relevant:

http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=4406

Hope that helps

Cheers
Luke

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