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Asked: 2026-06-04T05:32:58+00:00

How do you set up apache to show the rails app once it is

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How do you set up apache to show the rails app once it is on the server? My rails app works perfectly on the localhost, but when I go to the external site it gives me the index information

like this 

Name    Last modified   Size    Description
[TXT]   404.html    21-May-2012 21:38   728      
[TXT]   422.html    21-May-2012 21:38   711      
[TXT]   500.html    21-May-2012 21:38   643      
[IMG]   favicon.ico 21-May-2012 21:38   0    
[TXT]   robots.txt  21-May-2012 21:38   204

This is my virtual host information

<VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerAdmin example@example.com
      ServerName server.example.com
      # ServerAlias
      DocumentRoot /var/www/sample_app/current/public
      ErrorLog /var/www/sample_app/error.log

          RailsEnv production
        <Directory "/var/www/sample_app/current/public">
          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
          Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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  1. Editorial Team

    OK that might not be it, but here’s what Passenger’s documentation recommends:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mycook.com
    DocumentRoot /webapps/mycook/public
    <Directory /webapps/mycook/public>
        Allow from all
        Options -MultiViews
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

    It’s clearly stated that MultiViews is not compatible with Passenger.

    So you could try:

    • Removing the Indexes option
    • Specifying -MultiViews instead of MultiViews

    To be honest, I’ve tried adding Indexes to a production app of mine, as I thought that might just be this option that caused the problem, but it didn’t change anything… so it’s a bit of a “wild guess” that it might fix things on your side.

    UPDATE
    From another answer, what you could try is adding the PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot option:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.mycook.com
    DocumentRoot /webapps/mycook/public
    <Directory /webapps/mycook/public>
        Allow from all
        Options -MultiViews
        PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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