Comments on: Configuring Passenger (mod_rails) on SliceHost with Ubuntu 7.10 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/ A delicious blend of Ruby and Rails... Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:28:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: tychoish http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-3683 tychoish Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:43:06 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-3683 this is a great resource, but it looks like your line breaks have gotten mangled. two other notes.... first, brightbox provides ubuntu (and probably debian-compatable) packages for hardy, which make the installation process more--straightforward. secondly, passenger requires log files to be worldwriteable, which doesn't strike me as the most brilliant thing in the world, but its no great risk and it is what it is. this is a great resource, but it looks like your line breaks have gotten mangled.

two other notes….

first, brightbox provides ubuntu (and probably debian-compatable) packages for hardy, which make the installation process more–straightforward.

secondly, passenger requires log files to be worldwriteable, which doesn’t strike me as the most brilliant thing in the world, but its no great risk and it is what it is.

]]> By: David Smith http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-3154 David Smith Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:29:59 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-3154 OK, I should have proofread that more carefully! 1. I am NOT using a domain name for the internal test server -- hence the ip address instead. 2. Just to clarify: I was able to install passenger from the ubuntu deb repo, as well as uninstall it and then try the gem install method. The installations apparently worked (or didn't kick up any errors at the time), but I still can't get my app served. Someone may recognize my test app "shovell" was built from the tutorial in Simply Rails 2 -- an excellent intro to Rails by the way, though weak in the deployment stuff, and a couple of years out of date. Thanks OK, I should have proofread that more carefully!

1. I am NOT using a domain name for the internal test server — hence the ip address instead.

2. Just to clarify: I was able to install passenger from the ubuntu deb repo, as well as uninstall it and then try the gem install method. The installations apparently worked (or didn’t kick up any errors at the time), but I still can’t get my app served.

Someone may recognize my test app “shovell” was built from the tutorial in Simply Rails 2 — an excellent intro to Rails by the way, though weak in the deployment stuff, and a couple of years out of date.

Thanks

]]> By: David Smith http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-3153 David Smith Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:23:53 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-3153 hi, I'm trying to set up a rails test server on my lan, and not having much luck using passenger. The server is an ubuntu 8.04 server edition VM (VirtualBox, bridged nic), running Apache, MySQL and Rails. I can hit the server from my lan (the host pc, actually), using 192.168.2.xxx, and I can hit my test rails app after launching Mongrel server in production mode from 192.168.2.xxx:3000. I tried installing passenger from the ubuntu deb repository, and when that didn't work, through gem (where it apparently builds passenger for the onboard Apache version). In either case the result is the same: it doesn't work. Since I'm using a domain name for the server, I configured the "default" VirtualHost site as follows: ------------code snippet------------ NameVirtualHost * ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /home/dave/shovell/public Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None ------------------------------------ (note only DocumentRoot and Directory are changed from the original file). I have also tried setting up a symlink to the above directory in /var/www and adding a RailsBaseURI line. Without the line, my browser opens the directory (rather than the rails app). With it, I get the same, 500 Internal Server Error message Although my Rails installation and test app seem to be fine, judging by being able to run it in Mongrel, the Apache error log is reporting a slew of Ruby errors: ---------------log snippet------------------- [Tue Jun 23 15:29:02 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/2.2.4 configured -- resuming normal operations /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- fastthread (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53 /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- fastthread (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53 /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- fastthread (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53 [ pid=7822 file=ext/apache2/Hooks.cpp:688 time=2009-06-23 15:29:07.824 ]: Unexpected error in mod_passenger: Cannot spawn application '/home/dave/shovell': The spawn server has exited unexpectedly. Backtrace: in 'virtual boost::shared_ptr Passenger::ApplicationPoolServer::Client::get(const Passenger::PoolOptions&)' (ApplicationPoolServer.h:471) in 'int Hooks::handleRequest(request_rec*)' (Hooks.cpp:485) ---------------------------------- Any help in identifying where the problem lies, and how I might go about fixing it would sure be appreciated! I already took a stab at the mongrel + mod_proxy method and got nowhere. Thanks. hi,

I’m trying to set up a rails test server on my lan, and not having much luck using passenger.

The server is an ubuntu 8.04 server edition VM (VirtualBox, bridged nic), running Apache, MySQL and Rails.

I can hit the server from my lan (the host pc, actually), using 192.168.2.xxx, and I can hit my test rails app after launching Mongrel server in production mode from 192.168.2.xxx:3000.

I tried installing passenger from the ubuntu deb repository, and when that didn’t work, through gem (where it apparently builds passenger for the onboard Apache version).

In either case the result is the same: it doesn’t work.

Since I’m using a domain name for the server, I configured the “default” VirtualHost site as follows:

————code snippet————
NameVirtualHost *

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/dave/shovell/public

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

————————————
(note only DocumentRoot and Directory are changed from the original file).

I have also tried setting up a symlink to the above directory in /var/www and adding a RailsBaseURI line. Without the line, my browser opens the directory (rather than the rails app). With it, I get the same, 500 Internal Server Error message

Although my Rails installation and test app seem to be fine, judging by being able to run it in Mongrel, the Apache error log is reporting a slew of Ruby errors:

—————log snippet——————-
[Tue Jun 23 15:29:02 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.6 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/2.2.4 configured — resuming normal operations
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — fastthread (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — fastthread (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — fastthread (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:27
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53:in `require’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.4/bin/passenger-spawn-server:53
[ pid=7822 file=ext/apache2/Hooks.cpp:688 time=2009-06-23 15:29:07.824 ]:
Unexpected error in mod_passenger: Cannot spawn application ‘/home/dave/shovell’: The spawn server has exited unexpectedly.
Backtrace:
in ‘virtual boost::shared_ptr Passenger::ApplicationPoolServer::Client::get(const Passenger::PoolOptions&)’ (ApplicationPoolServer.h:471)
in ‘int Hooks::handleRequest(request_rec*)’ (Hooks.cpp:485)
———————————-

Any help in identifying where the problem lies, and how I might go about fixing it would sure be appreciated! I already took a stab at the mongrel + mod_proxy method and got nowhere.

Thanks.

]]> By: Lukasz http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-2575 Lukasz Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:05:48 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-2575 thank you very very much for solving problem with permissions thank you very very much for solving problem with permissions

]]> By: Sandy http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-2531 Sandy Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:30:50 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-2531 I created a simple, scaffolded Rails application (called "testapp") on Ubuntu 8.10. Testapp s located in my /www/var/ directory, I get the "Welcome onboard" screen, but if I click the "About your application's environment", I get a Passenger error screen. Looking at the apache2 error log file, it says that the rails-2.3.2 gem is missing. However, the gem is installed (as confirmed during the passenger-install-apache2-module step), and testapp runs fine when I run it from Mongrel in the same location (and its "environment" includes rails-2.3.2). echo $PATH shows that the directory with rails-2.3.2 is present. I added the following to apache2.conf: # Include the virtual host configurations: Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ passenger-2.1.3/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.1.3 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8 # Configure mod_passenger RailsSpawnMethod conservative RailsEnv development and in sites-enabled/testapp, I have: ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost Servername localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/testapp/public RailsSpawnMethod conservative RailsEnv development ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName localhost # Configure mod_passenger RailsSpawnMethod conservative RailsEnv development DocumentRoot /var/www/testapp/public Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 so, I should be in development mode, but it dies giving me the following error: [Thu Apr 16 07:57:46 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Phusion_Passenger/2.1.3 configured -- resuming normal operations Missing the Rails 2.3.2 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.3.2 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use the latest version installed. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Sandy I created a simple, scaffolded Rails application (called “testapp”) on Ubuntu 8.10. Testapp s located in my /www/var/ directory, I get the “Welcome onboard” screen, but if I click the “About your application’s environment”, I get a Passenger error screen. Looking at the apache2
error log file, it says that the rails-2.3.2 gem is missing. However, the gem is installed (as confirmed during the passenger-install-apache2-module step), and testapp runs fine when I run it from Mongrel in the same location (and its “environment” includes rails-2.3.2).
echo $PATH shows that the directory with rails-2.3.2 is present.

I added the following to apache2.conf:

# Include the virtual host configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
passenger-2.1.3/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.1.3
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

# Configure mod_passenger
RailsSpawnMethod conservative
RailsEnv development

and in sites-enabled/testapp, I have:

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
Servername localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/testapp/public

RailsSpawnMethod conservative
RailsEnv development

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName localhost

# Configure mod_passenger
RailsSpawnMethod conservative
RailsEnv development

DocumentRoot /var/www/testapp/public

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ “/usr/share/doc/”

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

so, I should be in development mode, but it dies giving me the following error:

[Thu Apr 16 07:57:46 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Phusion_Passenger/2.1.3 configured — resuming normal operations
Missing the Rails 2.3.2 gem. Please `gem install -v=2.3.2 rails`, update your RAILS_GEM_VERSION setting in config/environment.rb for the Rails version you do have installed, or comment out RAILS_GEM_VERSION to use the latest version installed.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

Sandy

]]> By: Drew Tufano http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-2487 Drew Tufano Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:23:55 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-2487 Hey Ben! I just wanted to say a big "thank you" for writing this post!! I've been frustrated for most of the day trying to figure out why passenger kept erroring out! It was the permissions!! All the files where set to root:root. Easy chown user:user and I'm in business! Thank you, thank you for pointing me in the right direction! Hey Ben!

I just wanted to say a big “thank you” for writing this post!! I’ve been frustrated for most of the day trying to figure out why passenger kept erroring out! It was the permissions!! All the files where set to root:root. Easy chown user:user and I’m in business! Thank you, thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

]]> By: Al Brown http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-1743 Al Brown Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:45:59 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-1743 A fellow RIT grad, into rails AND capitalism. Very cool! A fellow RIT grad, into rails AND capitalism. Very cool!

]]> By: Hanky http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-905 Hanky Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:58:03 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-905 My webserver stops responding after sometime and I have to restart apache to start the server again. I am using passenger along with apache. Has anyone faced this problem before? If yes, what is the solution for this? My webserver stops responding after sometime and I have to restart apache to start the server again. I am using passenger along with apache. Has anyone faced this problem before? If yes, what is the solution for this?

]]> By: Scott http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Scott Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:52:02 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-899 Hi tinl, I set up multiple using vhosts on slicehost from the http://articles.slicehost.com, and then did the following which I documented here: http://scottmotte.com/archives/145 Hi tinl,

I set up multiple using vhosts on slicehost from the http://articles.slicehost.com, and then did the following which I documented here: http://scottmotte.com/archives/145

]]> By: Billy Ma http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/comment-page-1/#comment-879 Billy Ma Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:51:10 +0000 http://www.railsgarden.com/2008/04/12/configurating-passenger-mod_rails-on-slicehost-with-ubuntu-710/#comment-879 I would suggest to use virtual host to run two or more rails applications. That way apache can detect which rails application to go depend on the address entered. Virtual Host Setting ServerName tracks ... ServerName redmine ... I would suggest to use virtual host to run two or more rails applications. That way apache can detect which rails application to go depend on the address entered.

Virtual Host Setting

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ServerName redmine
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