Hello,
I’m using a Ruby on Rails droplet for a few weeks. Since yesterday, for no reason, my project has no assets (JS/CSS) anymore… Apparently, it could be related to permission issues on the public folder, but I can’t figure out how to access to server logs :/ Is there a way to confirm this problem, and to fix it? Thank you in advance
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Heya,
You’ll need to access your server logs. Rails logs are usually stored in the log/ directory of your application.
To check these logs, you can access your droplet via SSH and navigate to your Rails application directory. Once there, you can use commands like tail -n 100 log/production.log to view the logs.
If the issue is with file permissions, you can fix it by ensuring that the owner/group of the public folder and its content are correct, and that they have the appropriate read/write permissions. To do this, run the following commands in your application directory:
- sudo chown -R your_user:your_group public
- sudo chmod -R 755 public
Replace your_user and your_group with your appropriate username and group on the droplet.
For more information, please refer to the How To Deploy a Rails App with Puma and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 tutorial.
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