Re: [LUG] Install RoR - Apache2 and FastCGI

[Samoh <onlinefennario-linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again, 

After a good night sleep I returned to the problem with a new mind and found the error in the Apache config file (there was also the same error repeated in the .htaccess for ruby). It took a long time to get ruby going but at least I have a little better understanding of Apache now.

Sam

Samoh <onlinefennario-linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I've installed RoR on Debian Sarge last night and it worked well using WEBrick.
> I created my first application: addressbook.
>
> Tonight's step was to make it work using Apache2 and fastCGI.
> I followed several guides online but got stuck. I will try to detail everything I ended up doing:
>
> i installed libfcgi-ruby1.8 and libapache2-mod-fcgi and I enabled mod rewrite.
> I added the following lines in my sites-enabled
>  file:
>
>         Alias /addressbook "/var/www/addressbook/public"
>         <Directory "/var/www/addressbook/public">
>                 Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
>                 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>                  AllowOverride all
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 Allow from all
>         </Directory>
>
>
> I also modified the following lines in the .htaccess in addressbook/public
>
> RewriteBase /addressbook
> #RewriteRule ^(.*)$
>  dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
>
> I restarted apache a number of times and had no success...
>
> When I go to localhost/addressbook I see the following:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby1.8
> #
> # You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log (a log of unhandled
> # exceptions which forced the FastCGI instance to exit, great for debugging)
> # and the number of requests to process before running garbage collection.
> #
> # By default, the FastCGI crash log is
>  RAILS_ROOT/log/fastcgi.crash.log
> # and the GC period is nil (turned off).  A reasonable number of requests
> # could range from 10-100 depending on the memory footprint of your app.
> #
> # Example:
> #   # Default log path, normal GC behavior.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process!
> #
> #   # Default log path, 50 requests between GC.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 50
> #
> #   # Custom log path, normal GC behavior.
> #   RailsFCGIHandler.process!
>  '/var/log/myapp_fcgi_crash.log'
> #
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
> require 'fcgi_handler'
>
> RailsFCGIHandler.process!
>
>
>
>
> I hope someone knows what I missed here to get this going :)
> thanks
>
> Sam
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