Tom,
Normally I would be configure this in my apache config, not use an .htaccess
rewrite rule.
I would use a wildcard mapping for your ServerAlias config... instead of
setting NAME.website.com to point at the /rails/radiant/NAME dir, I would
set ServerAlias *.website.com
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I'll update this for the group.
It seems that some old mongrel processes were not successfully killed. My
best guess is that these processes were picking up the requests and had
loaded the older versions of the code.
Hunting down and killing those old processes, then verifying that the newly
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