Just installed Tracks and it works except it does not have any Style sheets ..Just black and white text.

<VirtualHost 10.2.111.1:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/tracks/public
  ServerName tracks.dud.net
  ServerSignature On
  LogLevel warn
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
  DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production

  <Files *.fcgi>
  SetHandler fcgid-script
  Options ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
  </Files>

  <Directory /var/www/tracks/public>
      RewriteEngine on
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^/(.*) dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
###
config/environment.rb

config.action_controller.relative_url_root = “tracks.dud.net/tracks/public”

You need to access tracks in the form of http://www.example.com/tracks. If you don’t add the tracks.conf to the etc/httpd/conf.d folder you will only see text.

furthermore, your relative root is wrong. I think it should be just “/tracks”

Hmm .. Made the changes you recommended .. Same results.

File : config/environments.rb

config.action_controller.relative_url_root = “/tracks”

File: /etc/apache2/sites-available/tracks

<VirtualHost 10.2.111.238:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/tracks/public/
  ServerName tracks.mcld.net
  ServerSignature On
  LogLevel debug
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
  DefaultInitEnv RAILS_ENV production

  <Files *.fcgi>

  SetHandler fcgid-script
  Options ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
  </Files>

  <Directory /var/www/tracks/public>
      RewriteEngine on
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^/(.*) dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I’m not using fcgi myself…

IIRC, there was something about a conflict between fcgi and the .htaccess in /public. Perhaps you can rename it to see if this helps…

I was able to force css not to work when I was playing around with the tracks config files.
When I changed the setting in time_zone: “your_setting_here” statement in the */tracks/config/site.yml file, css quit functioning. 

The output from rake time:zones:local first output is a GMT (Greenwitch Mean Time) setting, so I attempted to prepend this to the rake output of my local time zone.  CSS stopped working until I reset
this back to my primary local time zone setting.

So, I would suggest rechecking all those *.yml files that tracks first asked you to set up.

Also, the subdir: “your_setting_here” statement in site.yml caused a site parsing error on my system and tracks only worked after I commented this whole statement out.

“I’m not using fcgi myself…
IIRC, there was something about a conflict between fcgi and the .htaccess in /public. Perhaps you can rename it to see if this helps…”

Renier ... As for fcgi & .htaccess together,

I was able to make this work after using the statement: AllowOverride All in my httpd-vhosts.conf file.

Currently, I have AllowOverride None as my statement. This is an Apache Security Tips suggestion.

I am not using the .htaccess file at all and have migrated all of its settings directly into the apache httpd-vhosts.conf file.  I moved quickly away from the use of .htaccess after reading this:

RewriteHtaccessIgnored

May this help tracks implementors.