# Symlink for static files

Among applying the changes in the other files in this gist, you need to symlink the directory you are serving the app with in the root app's public directory so that NGINX can serve the static files in the sub-app.

For example, if you have an app at `/home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public` as your root app, and you have the sub app served at <http://app.coffeencoke.com/admin>, then you need to symlink `/home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public` to `/home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin` like so:

```bash
ln -s /home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin
```

Also...

Issue when deploying a fresh environment and running deploy:cold
you may get an error that says "cannot stat /....manifest.yml"
Added an issue in github: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/issues/379
Work around is to manually run the rake assets precompile method in app/shared/cached-copy
and move the assets/admin/manifest.yml file to /app/shared/assets/manifest.yml

```
$ cap ui deploy:setup deploy:cold # this will fail, but will setup our files for us
$ ssh coffeencoke@app.coffeencoke.com
$ cd ~/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/shared/cached-copy
$ bundle install --without test development
$ bundle exec rake RAILS_ENV=qa RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile
$ cp -- public/admin/assets/manifest.yml ../assets/
$ exit
$ cap ui deploy:cold
```