RoR Apache setting?

[mark2006]

This is a simple 'hello word' application.

code structure is here

http://www.smtservers.com/demo/

I can access it here

http://www.smtservers.com/demo/public/say/hello

But the url is so long and other people can see my source code

I want to access the same code like this

http://www.smtservers.com/say/hello

I ask the hosting company,he told me change .htaccess.

Please give me a idea how to change the setting in .htaccess

Thanks

MS

[mark2006]

My question is like how to map ruby public folder to a url.

I can not access httpd.conf.the hosting limited my function.

Ms

[rossriley]

Your problem is that your DocumentRoot needs to be set to your 'public' directory.
It is actually your host who will need to add /demo/public to the VirtualHost setting in the Apache config since I doubt you have access to this.

Alternatively if they won't do this for you you could create an .htaccess file in the root directory containing the following.....

Redirect 301 / /demo/public

[b0rdslide]

You should be creating/uploading your app in a web-inaccessible area! The way you have it right now is incredibly insecure as anyone could access your code and database settings.

Create your app in your home directory, then sym-link your htdocs folder (may well be called something else) to your apps public folder. After that all you have to do is add a default route to routes.rb so that yourdomain.com will go straight to your default page.

[lirux]

Sounds like your host doesnt have good support for ruby on rails...
There are lot's of hosts that do it well, you can see a list at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts

I like textdrive