From: Tobias Luetke <tobias.luetke@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T07:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Rails to work on WinXP

Using apache you need mod_rewrite for pretty urls. If you go to
http://blog.leetsoft.com/rails/ you can find videos which can help you
to set everything up on windows.



On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:54:24 +0900, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
<vanweerd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:57:34 +0900, Robo <robo@mars.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm trying to the 10min Setup video tutorial, but the video's slightly
> > outdated, and my environment's a bit different.
> >
> > I've got Ruby 1.8, WinXP, Apache2, and MySQL working. I installed Rails
> > via RubyGems, and I want to use it without virtual hosts, but simply as
> > a subfolder in my regular www directory.
> >
> > The provided Apache conf file assumes I'm using VirtualHost, so I
> > modified it to:
> >
> > <Directory /blog/public>
> >    Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
> >    AllowOverride all
> >    Allow from all
> >    Order allow,deny
> > </Directory>
> >
> > Because I used gems, the default files are not actually in the www
> > directory like in the video. I've manually copied the folder across for now.
> >
> > Inside E:\www\blog, I ran "ruby script/new_controller Weblog", and it
> > created the weblog_controller.rb file in E:\www\app\controllers\, but
> > when I go to http://localhost/blog/weblog, I simply get a 404 error,
> > which I half expected, 'cos there's no weblog folder in the blog folder.
> > In the video it seems to execute the controller scripts, but I can't get
> > that to work.
> >
> > So, say I was to start a project from scratch in my environment, how
> > would I do it, to get Rails to print my hello world?
> >
> > Robo
> >
> >
> 
> Does rails still require mod_rewrite for pretty urls in Apache?
> 
> I'm still using webbrick on Windows-
> "ruby public/dispatch.servlet" from the root directory.
> 
> Regards,
> Nick
> 
> 


-- 
Tobi
http://blog.leetsoft.com