Re: [capistrano] Deploying to Justhost.com

[Lee Hambley]

Newbie using Capistrano. Trying to figure out how to deploy to a shared hosting account on Justhost.com. Is anyone doing similar? I really need some guidance as Justhost are not very forthcoming!

Shared hosting almost never works well for this kind of stuff, unfortunately all the silly sh** they do makes each one different (and differently frustrating)

 

I'm not sure about how to set up the deploy_to settings and point the web server to the right place.

It's whatever your host tells you is the "web root", the problem is Cap assumues that it can work one-level up from there, so your shared host will probably not let you do that (Cap assumes that it can manage the directory that CONTAINS your web root)

 

I keep getting permission denied errors too.

Yep, you *might* have some success with `set :use_sudo, false`, but I wouldn't bet on it, try to find a host who aren't hopeless. (Although if you are still at "shared hosting" level, maybe Heroku might be a better bet for your small app)

- Lee