Changing the base URL for Rails 3 development

Question

I know I\'m going to deploy to an environment with my application running with a base URL which looks like this:

http://someserver/mydepartment/myapp
         


        

Answer 1

Here’s how you can deploy a Rails 3.1 app to a subdirectory in Apache, replacing config.action_controller.relative_url_root which no longer exists.

In config/routes.rb:

scope 'my_subdir' do
  # all resources and routes go here
end

In your Apache configuration file:

Alias /my_subdir /var/www/my_subdir/public

  SetEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT "/my_subdir"
  PassengerAppRoot /var/www/my_subdir

And it should work, including automatically pointing all your assets to /my_subdir.