awkward silence

Here’s what I did to get typo running at DreamHost:

First, confirm from the shell:

which ruby  -> should be /usr/bin/ruby
gem list  -> should include rails 0.13.1, etc.

You’ll need to edit dispatch.fcgi and dispatch.rb to have the correct path to ruby.

I set up typo in my web root. If you don’t want that, I’d highly suggest setting up a sub domain and pointing it to the public folder of typo:

/home/cgiusername/public_html/typo/public/

Then edit the .htaccess file to point it to use .fcgi:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

And set the permissions of at least the dispatch.fcgi and dispatch.rb to 755:

chmod 755 public/*

It’s a good idea just to do the whole public directory.

Next, if you’re on Windows run:

dos2unix public/*

Before I set up the sub domain I was having problems getting the app to handle the requests right. It is definitely easier to use a whole separate host if you have any spare ones. I’ll probably go back and set up several hosts such as:

blog.convergentarts.com
wiki. " "
forum. " "

etc. because it is both a lot easier to get your app running, but you also have some nice division of your htdocs so you don’t overwrite your wiki when you change your blog.