newbie: Rails on remote Apache server not displaying index.html.erb

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Published on 2010-04-27T15:26:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 15:33 UTC
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I played around with Rails on my laptop (running Linux + Apache + MySQL) and had no trouble getting the Getting Started with Rails tutorial to work locally. Now I'm trying the same thing at work on a remote Mac OS X + Apache server, and things aren't quite so rosy.

I typed rails blog -d mysql to create a directory called blog in /Library/WebServer/Documents/mydirectory. The trouble is, if I go to server.com/mydirectory/public, I get the public/index.html in my browser. But, I don't get this file if I go to server.com/mydirectory/. Instead, I get a 403 error. Also, when I:

script/generate controller home index

to create:

app/views/home/index.html.erb

I am unable to view this file, whether I go to server.com/mydirectory/home/index, or if I add a new line (map.root :controller => "home") to config/routes.rb and go to server.com/mydirectory.

Am I missing something really obvious about Apache and Rails?

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