-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tony Rose wrote: > Josh, > > You caught me, I forgot to document one step that I did... since my > document root for my domain is: > > /var/www/html/ > > For each of the apps, I had to make a symlink from that apps public > directory to my document root directory... and then the /images and > /stylesheets loaded as I needed them to, and works as you would expect > it to when you deploy changes to current... > > --> ln -s /var/www/rails/app1/current/public /var/www/html/app1 > > I'll update my blog post now! Thanks for catching it. > > Tony >
No problem. I am still experiencing the issue after the symlink. However, I think I figured this out and wanted to reiterate findings as this may be useful to someone else tackling this issue. Here are some specifics: In a html file I have a static link as such: <img src="/images/foo.png"/> - From mongrel_rails start, I can see the image under: http://localhost:3000/images/foo.png I deploy the app using capistrano the site is under: http://server/app which put the new URL to the image: http://server/app/images/foo.png Kaboom. The symlink does not work for the images since they are still one directory down. What is interesting is the stylesheets have _always_ worked: <link href="/app/stylesheets/main.css?1170289309" media="all" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" /> and are generated by the <%= stylesheet_link_tag "main", :media => "all" %> call to ERB. This was the key! For each image link or URL reference in my site (not that many really), I modified the static links to use img_tag and link_to in ERB as: <%= image_tag('foo') %><br> <%= link_to 'Home', :action => "list" %> This makes sense as image_tag assumes a path images relative to the root of the project. Since mongrel is running with the --prefix of app everything happens as expected and we have: in mongrel_rails start: http://localhost:3000/images/foo.png after deployment with capistrano: http://server/app/images/foo.png I am not sure the symlink is the right recommendation as this could be fixed by allowing ERB to generate URLS. I was able to find supportive evidence in the agile web development with rails skateboarding book, p 41. Thanks again. Josh Richard University of Minnesota Duluth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwO/jtK+gf29TyJQRAqRcAKDVHQWx7Jqq12f8FXI3Xxa6osVpxwCglBni tfz7q+Iyu9s5hQq2bBe7hxw= =LTC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
