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To use an existing application
Make sure that your app lives in /home/USER/testapp
Change the line in your Rails application’s public/dispatch.fcgi
Change:
require 'fcgi'
To:
require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'fcgi'
Make sure Apache can find dispatch.fcgi
Now edit your app's public/.htaccess and change/add the following lines to make sure that the Rails app is using FastCGI and that it knows that the app is living in a subdirectory.
Change:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi?$1 [QSA,L]
To:
RewriteBase /testapp
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi?$1 [QSA,L]
Make sure that dispatch.fcgi is executable:
chmod 755 public/dispatch.fcgi
All should be installed! :)
For a new account, you can test RoR out by creating a test cPanel account and doing:
cd /home/USER
rails /home/USER/testapp
cd /home/USER/testapp/
ruby script/generate controller test
cd /home/USER/public_html
ln -s ../testapp/public rails
Replace USER with an appropriate username ;)
Then navigate to http://www.yourtestdomain.com/rails/ and you should see a Congratulations page!
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