From: Robo <robo@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T21:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Rails to work on WinXP

I've already got mod_rewrite enabled prior to installing Rails. Using 
gems instead of tgz, and not using VirtualHosts makes the situation a 
bit different to the tutorials, so still unable to get it working.

Robo

Tobias Luetke wrote:
> 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outdated, and my environment's a bit different.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
>>
>>
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> 
>