how to install & set up RoR application on shared hosting

Question

I successfully installed redmine.org application under my BlueHost account. I was following the official installation guide without any error. Point #8 says that I can test the installation by running WEBrick web server and accessing it via lynx http://localhost:3000/ from the Bluehost server. Well it works but when I try from outside I got "parking page".

I contacted BH support and was told that it is because I still have default.html (0B of size) in the root directory. That I need to replace it with index.html from the RoR application. I guess I have to do something about .htaccess and dispatch.fcgi that are in public directory of redmine.

• I created new 'redmine' subdomain under my account. It created new 'redmine' directory inside ~/public_html/
• then I checked out the source code inside ~/public_html/redmine so I have ~/public_html/redmine/public directory

Q1: did I install redmine source code in the correct directory? Q2: what can I do to make redmine accessible world wide?

Answer 1

put your code in ~/redmine
backup a ~/redmine/public directory
make symlink of ~/public_html to ~/redmine/public
put backup contents to ~/redmine/public