Blag

Ruby On Rails apps are finally easy to install – mod_rails is here. Just installed it for the Blag ( Typo 5.0.1 on Gentoo Unstable ) and it looks to be working quite nicely. Only roadbump I encountered was problems getting static content to be served. Kept getting:

[error] [client 124.168.83.214] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/da.nmilne.com/htdocs/public/javascripts/typo.js

The problem was pretty straight forward – now that mongrel isn’t serving up the static content, I had to make sure that apache was configured to allow access. Added a this stanza:

  <Directory "/var/www/da.nmilne.com/htdocs/public">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
  </Directory>

Naturally it feels snappier. Nice.