I have for a couple of month, changed to Servage from Surftown. You can finde more information about the reason for changing here.
Now I have started programming in Ruby, with Rails as framework.
Servage, is ideal as a hosting firm for webdeveloping in my humble opinion.
Click the read more to get all my tips, and tricks.Here are my Servage/Rail chips to get quick started:
Webpath to mount your root is yourapp/public.
permissions:
chmod 755 to the all folders/files in your application
change ownership of: /log /tmp (recusive, to 'webserver')
Paths
change the path in yourapp/public/dispatch.cgi|fcgi|rb
to #!/usr/bin/ruby, from your local path.
.htaccess corrections: (to enable fast cgi)
This will enable your application, to use fcgi, with is about x10 faster then normal cgi
# General Apache options
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
#AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
# If you don't want Rails to look in certain directories,
# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won't rewrite certain requests
#
# Example:
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.*
# RewriteRule .* - [L]
# Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails
# By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow
#
# For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one
#
# Example:
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
RewriteEngine On
# If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,
# then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.
#
# Example:
# Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public
# RewriteBase /myrailsapp
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
# In case Rails experiences terminal errors
# Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead
#
# Example:
# ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly"
Programming tips
I would suggest a good ide as development platform.
I use eclipse with the radrails plugin.
Use the following url to add to your source, in eclipse:
- RDT: http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release
- RadRails: http://radrails.sourceforge.net/update
- Subclipse (optional): http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x
Remember that http://www.rubyonrails.org/ is a great place to get information.
If possiable, try to get a svn server running, this will ease your programming developing
regards
svend gundestrup