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Setting and modifying the application root

Last edited by Eric Franz

By default, accessing the root of an AweSim app that has been created using the AweSim Rails template will send the user to the pages/index route. If you wish to modify the root app path used by the dashboard, you will need to modify the .htaccess files.

See Managing .htaccess for details on why this step is necessary.

  1. Modify public/.htaccess.passenger_fix by replacing the pages/index of RewriteRule ^$ %1pages/index [L] with the controller path you want to send the user to. For example, for the simulations index we would do RewriteRule ^$ %1simulations/ [L]

  2. cd public then redo cat .htaccess.development .htaccess.passenger_fix > .htaccess so the .htaccess in dev mode is also updated.

  3. Update config/routes.rb so the root route goes to the new location.

  4. Click "Restart Webserver" on the AweSim dashboard.