wordpress and rails on the same domain

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It's relatively easy to setup php and rails on the same server using Apache with Phusion, but when we need it all to work on the same domain, things might get a little tricky. Let's assume you have a website: www.myWebsite.com, which you wrote (or it just works) in Rails, and you want to use wordpress as your blog engine. Assuming all of your posts, should be under www.myWebsite.com/blog, this is how to get it done
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1. prerequisites:
   you already have Apahce, mod_php, mod_rewrite, phusion, and you know how to make it work. Your existing blog and website are working, but not on the same domain, or not concurrently. You are using Debian / Ubuntu.
   
   
2. Assume you've installed your blog under /var/www/blog, and let's say you've installed your rails website under /var/lib/www.myWebsite.com
   
   
3. Login to your blog as admin, goto Options -> General, and change your Wordpress Address URL, and your Blog Adress URL to www.myWebsite.com/blog (click update Options, and disregard whatever doesn't work right now)
   
   
4. Go to the /var/lib/www.myWebsite.com/public folder, and link to your blog folder :
   ln -s /var/www/blog blog
   
   
5. goto to the wordpress directory: cd /etc/wordpress/
   
   
6. make wordpress look at the configuration file (linking the mywebsite configuration file to the default config-blog.php file):
   sudo ln -s config-blog.php config-www.myWebsite.com.php
   
   
7. edit your /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.myWebsite.com. Add the following lines
   <VirtualHost *>
   ServerName www.myWebsite.com
   DocumentRoot /var/lib/www.myWebsite.com/public
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   
   RewriteRule ^/blog$ /blog/index.php [QSA]
   RewriteRule ^(/blog.*/$)$ $1/index.php [QSA]
   RewriteRule ^/blog/?(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/blog/$1 [NC,QSA,L]
   </VirtualHost>
   
   
8. restart the apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart),
   
   
9. That's it. Enjoy your blog :)