From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T05:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails question

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:51:18 +0900, Ochronus <ochronus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help, I did what you adviced, but the result is weird.
> 
> At first load (first time it's opened in the browser) everything's fine,
>   it generates good urls. Then if I click one of these hrefs, the second
> time the page loads, it seemingly adds the prefix _again_
> 
> As for an actual example:
> First time link:
> http://www.all.hu/ochronus/blog/public/categories/show/2
> 
> When I click this href, it reloads the page, and the same href changes to:
> http://www.all.hu/ochronus/blog/public/ochronus/blog/public/categories/show/2
> 
> What could be causing this? How could I avoid it?
> 
Make sure to set the <base href=""> attribute in the HEAD section of
your rhtml template to http://www.all.hu .  This should tell the
browser that paths all start relative to that directory, not whatever
the URL appears to be.

> Thank you,
> Ochronus
> 
> 
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >> This brought up a former problem of mine: I was not able to deploy a
> >> single rails app to an apache www-root subdirectory, because all the
> >> automatically generated links (link_to, actions, etc.) pointed at
> >> www.servername.com/action  instead of
> >> www.servername.com/ochronus/rails_app/action. I couldn't find any
> >> workaround, and even "googling" was no good... Does anyone have an idea?
> >
> >
> > You can use :application_prefix. You can even set this as a default
> > rewrite option if all your rewrites needs to be made with this prefix.
> > Example:
> >
> > class ApplicationController
> >   protected
> >     def default_url_options(options)
> >       { :application_prefix => "ochronus/" }
> >     end
> > end
> > --
> > David Heinemeier Hansson,
> > http://www.basecamphq.com/   -- Web-based Project Management
> > http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
> > http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain
> >
> >
> >
> 
>