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

Add the below line to the end of config/environment.rb

ActionController::Base.relative_url_root = "/mydepartment"

Answer 2

You can try mapping your rails app rack config to a different base_uri. All you need to do is wrap the existing 'run' command in a map block

try doing this in your rails 'config.ru' file:

map '/mydepartment' do
    run Myapp::Application
end

Now when you 'rails server' the app should be at localhost:3000/mydepartment . Not sure if this will give you the desired outcome, but worth a try.

Answer 3

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
<Location /my_subdir>
  SetEnv RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT "/my_subdir"
  PassengerAppRoot /var/www/my_subdir
</Location>

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