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sinatra
GreenTriangle
GreenTriangle

Reputation: 2460

How do relative URLs work in Sinatra?

I am hosting my Sinatra application using Apache with Passenger. It's hosted within a subfolder -- meaning, my main site is example.com, my application is at example.com/popcorn.

So I have a get '/' route, and that works fine. The problem is that my view includes a HTML form that makes a post request to upload, and the post '/upload' route isn't handling it. Instead of example.com/popcorn/upload, it's trying to get example.com/upload.

So I figure okay, not the ideal solution, but for now I'll hardcode the form action URL. But that doesn't work either -- making the action popcorn/upload fails too. This is where I get a little baffled, and my Google-fu was weak, I couldn't find help there.

Maybe I could have some kind of Apache rewrite rule, but is that the correct solution? Am I missing something? I would really appreciate a tip here because it feels like I've messed up something very simple and it's really bugging me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 195

Answers (1)

matt
matt

Reputation: 79733

You probably want the url helper method. That takes into account where the app is mounted on the server:

url('/upload')

The above code will evaluate to something like this:

http://example.com/popcord/upload

Inside your app you shouldn’t need to change anything, this will be routed to the existing post '/upload' handler.

Upvotes: 2

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