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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

