[Radiant] Using Radiant with Rails apps, but "the other way round"

Marcelo Alvim malvim at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 19:00:38 CDT 2007


Hey, guys.

I am considering using Radiant to run my site, since I just love its
simplicity and extensibility. This is a great product, thank you for
writing it!

So here's my question: What if I want to use Radiant to run the root
of my site, but I want to have different apps in it, running from
subdirectories / subdomains?

I'll try to explain a bit better:

Say I install Radiant in my site, at http://www.example.com/. I manage
my blog and static pages from Radiant, and everything is beautiful.
Then I want to write a small Rails app of my own and host it in
http://www.example.com/myapp/.

I figured I'd just have a symlink inside Radiant's public/ dir to
myapp/public, but I am not sure all the rewriting .htaccess magic will
"just work", since, as I understand it, Apache might think an address
like http://www.example.com/myapp/mycontroller/myaction/ is actually
something to be redirected to Radiant, and not to MyApp.

Does anyone here have any experience with such settings?

Thanks a lot, and keep up the great work!

Marcelo.



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