Fred,
Thanks. Yes, I know all of that, so that is why these errors seem so odd.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]
> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 7, 3:20 am, James Gaston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > For those of you who have solved the learning hurdle of rails deployment,
> > all I can say is congratulations! I'm struggling, frustrated that my app,
> > which runs so well on my linux box, generates such odd errors on my vps
> and
> > completely fails to do anything. For example, at the moment my
> > production.log file has the error:
> >
> >       ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/favicon.ico"
> with
> > {:method=>:get}):
>
> That particular error is a red herring - it means someone requested a
> file that doesn't exist. A favicon is the icon that appears to the
> left of the url bar in the browser, when a browser visits your site it
> will automatically request that file. Similarly, robots.txt contains
> instructions for bots crawling your site, so they automatically
> request it. Neither of these two will actually impact your site. What
> else is happening?
>
> Fred
> >
> > Sometimes instead of favicon it complains of robots.txt. Well, nowhere in
> my
> > code -- that I can find -- it there any refernece to either, yet here I
> sit,
> > looking at a blank screen, and trading the occasional email with the
> > sysadmin.
> >
> > Errors like this drive me nuts.
> >
> > thanks
> > - James
>
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