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Managing htaccess

Last edited by Eric Franz

.htaccess files are used to modify the Apache configurations of each app

Instead of having a .htaccess file at the top level of your app, you should:

  1. have a public/.htaccess.development and public/.htaccess.passenger_fix in your app versioned
  2. have the .htaccess file be in public/.htaccess, created by executing this command
cat .htaccess.development .htaccess.passenger_fix > .htaccess

The public/.htaccess file should be in .gitignore (a different one is generated when deploying a shared app).

The purpose of the .htaccess.passenger_fix is to force the redirect from a request to the root of the app to an appropriate suburi of the app. When deploying a shared app, the AweSim CLI will include the .htaccess.passenger_fix in the custom .htaccess file that is required for the shared app to work.

In Container Fill Sim's case it is /containers, so I have

efranz@oakley01:~/awesim_dev/rails1/public (master)$ cat .htaccess.passenger_fix
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ %1containers [L]

If you want to change the default sub-uri you must change the last directive RewriteRule ^$ %1containers [L] as well.

.htaccess.development should contain the directives only to be used in development mode. In this case the minimum required is:

efranz@websvcs02:~/awesim_dev/rails1 (master)$ cat public/.htaccess.development
RailsEnv development