Question

I have an rails application setup on a linux server which works fine and I can access it through:

machine.mydomain.com

the passenger setup file (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf) has this section:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName machine.mydomain.com 
      DocumentRoot /var/www/public    
      <Directory /var/www/public>
         AllowOverride all              
         Options -MultiViews           
      </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>

I added a new rails app under the same directory (it will not be there indefinately, it’s only for testing) under the subdirectory sss and added a new section in the file:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName machine.mydomain.com/sss
      DocumentRoot /var/www/sss/public
      <Directory /var/www/sss/public>
         AllowOverride all
         Options -MultiViews
      </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Assuming you’re using rack, you have to change your httpd.conf like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName machine.mydomain.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/public
  <Directory /var/www/public>
     AllowOverride all
     Options -MultiViews
  </Directory>

  RackBaseURI /sss
  <Directory /var/www/sss/public>
    Options -MultiViews
  </Directory>    

</VirtualHost>