Shared hosts are a common problem in complex rails deployments. Please consider using a dedicated virtualized server. They are more expensive, but you will have total control over your production environment.
Here are a couple of good ones to look at: Engine Yard <http://www.engineyard.com> <http://www.engineyard.com>Slicehost<http://www.slicehost.com/> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:23 AM, IMRAN.TV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steven, and Jonathan, hi. Steven, Thanks for responding so early in > the morning (I didn't sleep yet, want to get this working). I am sure > it is a lot to do also with the hostgator set up, e.g. needing to set > > ENV['RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT']="/rails" (or http://lbl.myserver.com ,etc) > > somewhere, which works fine for http://myserver.com/lbl for example > but not so fine for http://lbl.myserver.com as I have my LBL set up on > the hosted account. > > I got tired of trying to match my Mac OS X Snow Leopard environment > with Hostgator so installed LBL straight on their server which I > believe is Apache with MySQL. I also found that the .htaccess files > that were on the hostgator hard drive were NOT what I had uploaded > from LBL. I think they require some rewrites for their system and that > is what was also breaking LBL. For now, I renamed the .htaccess file I > had on the server and created a copy of the default file in LBL and it > all seems to be working for now. > > So that was an unneeded challenge I had to deal with. Finally seem to > have all images displaying AND the pages displaying. I was able to > register as a user but can't get the "forgot password reminder email" > message into my mailbox yet. I am sure it is just a matter of getting > the right data into the right config file. Not sure if I need to enter > a mail server name or credentials or if the local sendmail is used to > send out such messages. > >>>>>> BUT --- Now The major and important challenge that still remains is that I have only been able to rake the app if I comment out "require flickr" otherwise rake always aborts saying flickr was not found. I even tried typing in rflickr instead of flickr, in case it was a gem being called and LBL uses rflickr, but no luck. <<<<< > > Any ideas on what the issue may be on that will be appreciated so I > can avail the flickr and youtube functionality. > > Jonathan, sorry, I missed that reference as I had been up all night > and had heard similar statements from the ISP's tech support people > (who had taken 3 days, wasting my long weekend, just to figure out how > to install RedCloth and hpricot they had wrongly installed previously) > so didn't even think you meant it in jest. Now going on 30 hours awake > (including having to wait for Cablevision tech guy to come in and swap > my cable internet modem this morning after it started cutting out in > the middle of my above mentioned frustrations - so hopefully you will > see I am not too humor challenged in real life. :-) > > Regards > > Imran > http://imran.com/media/blog/ > http://twitter.com/imrananwar > > > > On Sep 9, 8:32 am, Jonathon Brenner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry, it was a reference to the classic meme: http://tinyurl.com/nxt595 >> >> I'm not sure what's going on there. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lovd by Less" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lovdbyless?hl=en Who loves ya baby? -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
