I am new to rails. I am working on a sample application for social networking. I have managed to upload the profile picture of users manually (By copying the image uploaded to /tmp/image to the public folder- public/images/tmp/image) and saved the path to db as avatar_url.
In the profile view I used
<%= image_tag(#userinfo.avatar_url, :alt=>"Avatar image")%>
and getting the picture when running on the rails server.
But after that I have deployed the app in apache with passenger in the development environment by setting RailsEnv development. After that the images are not loading. I tried to go to myip:80/public/images/tmp/image, and it gives Routing Error.
After searching on the web, I found that adding config.serve_static_assets = true in production.rb will solve the problem in production. But no use for me because it also stated that the static files will serve in development by default. For confirming the problem again, I started the rails server and opened localhost:3000/profile, image is there and not getting the image in myip:80/profile.
So do I need to add any other config. Or am I not supposed to do that in this way.
Finally, I got the solution for my problem. Just sharing here.
The problem was actually because of permission issues. The picture will be created in a root temp directory on the form submission. Then I copied the image form the temp folder to the public folder. Hence it has only read permissions. After I deployed it, the image gets returns 403 forbidden error.
I used,
FileUtils.chmod 775, target
to set the permission. After that it worked well.
The option config.serve_static_assets = true tells rails to serve the static assets for your application, but that job should really be left to Apache.
Your issue sounds more related to your Apache configuration than rails.
I would take a look at a tutorial on how to configure Apache and Passenger to make sure your environment is setup correctly.
Anything in the public folder should be served by the web server. However myip:80/public/images/tmp/image is not a valid path. You would need to also have a filename at the end with an extension.
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I've deployed a release in an ubuntu server with apache. When I access the deployed app, it shows in console: Error while trying to use the following icon from the Manifest: https://mydomain/icons/Icon-192.png (Download error or resource isn't a valid image).
Seems like flutter web is trying to download the Icon-192.png that resides on a subdirectory without permissions, giving me a Forbidden error.
I'd like to know, what's the best approach to access contents (assets like favicon, images, etc) on the deployed directory and subdirectories without making it public.
I've got to transfer a website from an hoster to another (MelbourneIT).
So I've done as usual with my favorite FileZilla, just copy the html website (without DB) to the other url.
So this one work for the first page ( http://www.lmhceramics.com/) because it's an html one but all my other pages doesn't work!
I've check the folders of my website and I found that this one worked with "Smarty" who is apparently a third party application.
I tried for 5 hours different things as : create an .htaccess to launch index.php instead of index.html, change the configuration on my site_globals.php but it didn't work. It looks like only the first page : index.html is loading.
I can give the access to the ftp if anyone could help it will be sweet as it's one website of my company!
Thanks guys.
Cheers
Initially I tested whether PHP was working, then when I was sure I looked at the error log. The overriding issue was a required library not being found because of a broken path, and PHP's display_errors setting was disabled so it resulted in a white screen.
The site main pages now function.
In site_globals.php, there were two paths that begun with a forward slash. This results in the code looking in the root directory of the server for a particular folder of files (the Smarty library, and the Smarty templates), which likely worked on the old server but not on the new shared hosting environment. New code italicised:
define( "SMARTYPATH", _$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ._ "/deldridge_smarty/" );
define( "TEMPLATEPATH", _$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ._ '/smarty/' );
Once that was fixed the code library and templates could be loaded and the rest of the configuration file continued to load. It then dies on:
$db_interface = new DBInterface;
$db_interface->connect( '172.20.254.1' , 'ampnet', 'cable05' );
This is an attempt to connect to a database. I haven't investigated what the database was for yet (that'd require looking through the PHP files in depth) but I'm assuming it was the login system or some such. Almost all of the pages in the site function with those two lines commented out, which I've done for now so that the majority of the content is available again. There's another reference to database connection details further down but they were already commented out.
One other area of particular interest is this:
// different dir structure on secure domain, make ammends
// ensure trailing slash if directory present
define( "SECURE_DIR", 'buildersbollards/' );
if ( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] == '/home/deldridge/secure.4mation.com.au' )
{
$site_path = '/' . SECURE_DIR;
}
Hop that helps!
It's difficult to know with so little information. Enable error reporting in php or just look at the php error log in your server. One probable cause for the error 500 may be that some key folders don't have CHMOD permission to write; In smarty, for example, templates_c must be writable
I had a shared hosting package with 1and1 and I just moved over to their VPS hosting that uses Plesk. I already had the domains moved over the VPS server and I already uploaded all of the files via FTP.
I talked to an agent yesterday and he helped me setup the main page on the website so that it would go to the appropriate root directory. The main website is working properly whenever I go the main domain name, however, whenever I go to website.com/blank or website.com/stuff, I receive a 404 error.
The strange part is that I see the files in Plesk file manager, I just don't know why they are not displaying properly. I didn't change anything in the migration process.
I did not change the code on any of the pages and I have contacted their customer support team a number of times, but they have been unable to resolve the issue.
Can anyone tell me what I should do to make sure that the files are associated with the correct pages?
Have you checked the permission for the files and folder under your domain, this seems to be an issue with either your ownership or permission of the files. And if thats not the problem it could even be your .htaccess file.. make sure you have transferred your .htaccess file as well from old shared hosting to new VPS.
I'm working on a Symfony2 project at local server without any virtual hosting or something else. After I run the command php app/console assets:install --symlink, clear the cache and refresh the page none styles or javascript or images are loaded. Inspecting the source code and trying to access any of those assets I get this error:
You don't have permission to access
/cmplatform/web/bundles/clanmovilcommon/css/bootstrap.min.css on this
server.
What I need to change in my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to fix that problem? It's related to .htaccess problem or what?
This error is due to the user that you are currently logged in as not having correct to write to the /cmplatform/web directory. Or you have not got the root path set correctly in your apache.conf.
Can you confirm other pages / assets are being served correctly.
Take a look at who owns the directory and either adjust the write permissions or add your user / web server to own the directory or into the group.
This is quite a common issue - and care needs to be taken to ensure that write permissions for web, cache and log directories are set correctly to allow command line and web server (e.g. apache / nginx) users.
See http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/installation.html - permissions for some tips about fixing this.
I have a Rails 3 application which has an attachment model and uses Paperclip gem. Everything works fine on development environment but on production server we cannot access any of the images uploaded. The images are in the right folder where they are supposed to be but when I try to reach them on browser I simply get the 404 page.
The upload folder is located under public folder and called "uploads"
I can access this: "app_url/uploads/test.html" which I manually created to see if it works
But I cannot acces this: "app_url/uploads/test.jpg" which I upload within the application via Paperclip.
I can guess this has something to do with the server configuration but I'm not an expert and may need help about it.
Thanks
UPDATE
I've just realised that uploaded files belong to "nobody" and when I manually change the owner to "root" it seems to be working fine. So I need to find a way to tell Paperclip make the files belong to "root"
It's not a good idea to have a web application being able to write files as root. File permissions are derived from the process writing the files. In case you're using Passenger, there's the concept of user switching:
http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#PassengerDefaultUser
Upon startup of your app, Passenger tries to figure out which user owns those files, and tries to switch it's application process to that user. In case it fails, "nobody" is the default.
Check your application permissions on the file level. You should have one user account per application on your server. The application (the directory and contents above the public directory) should be owned by this user. Files under public should be readable by others, so the webserver can pick them up, too.
Are you using Capistrano for deployment?