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Trouble installing publicly-accessible w/ apache (debian stable)

Idan Gazit

Posted: 24 August 2006 09:06 AM

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Total Posts: 1

Joined 2006-08-24

Hey everybody,

So basically I have successfully gotten to the point that running tracs on webrick works. That is, I run it a la “ruby script/server -e production” and I’m able to login using a local browser; I’ve successfully done the “signup” bit, etc.

However, I am simply incapable of divining what arcane rites are necessary to get this to work on apache and not webrick.

My apache setup has it as a subdirectory of the website, i.e. https://mydomain.com/tracks, and the config for that directory requires authentication, so I can access it from anywhere. Using fastcgid.

When I try to access https://mydomain.com/tracks, I get “Rails application failed to start properly”, and the following in development.log:

Processing Base#index (for 62.219.193.109 at 2006-08-24 05:01:50) [GET]
  Session ID: 86b3fd87ba1b04047f2498926184d191
  Parameters: {}


SystemExit (exit):
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:126:in `exit'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:126:in `exit_now_handler'
    /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `to_proc'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:114:in `call'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:213:in `continue'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `add_segment'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:207:in `go'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:216:in `continue'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `add_segment'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:85:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:207:in `go'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:363:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:363:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `indent'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:363:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:562:in `generation_code_for'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:560:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `indent'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:560:in `generation_code_for'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:554:in `indent'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:554:in `generation_code_for'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:551:in `each_with_index'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:551:in `each'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:551:in `each_with_index'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:551:in `generation_code_for'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:546:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `indent'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/code_generation.rb:46:in `method_missing'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:546:in `generation_code_for'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:489:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:483:in `each'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:483:in `write_generation'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:630:in `draw'
    /config/routes.rb:1
    /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:129:in `load'
    /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:129:in `load'
    /vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:608:in `reload'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:67:in `prepare_application'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/dispatcher.rb:37:in `dispatch'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in `process_request'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:54:in `process!'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in `each_cgi'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each'
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in `process!'
    /vendor/rails/railties/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:23:in `process!
    /var/web/tracks/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

Rendering /var/web/tracks/public/../config/../vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/templates/rescues/
layout.rhtml (500 Internal Error) 

What gives? I am a little stumped…. I am happy to post more information on my configuration if somebody can tell me what might be relevant.

Thanks!

-Idan

Zteven

Posted: 26 August 2006 08:52 AM

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Total Posts: 3

Joined 2006-08-26

Idan Gazit - 24 August 2006 09:06 AM
So basically I have successfully gotten to the point that running tracs on webrick works. That is, I run it a la “ruby script/server -e production” and I’m able to login using a local browser; I’ve successfully done the “signup” bit, etc.

However, I am simply incapable of divining what arcane rites are necessary to get this to work on apache and not webrick.

Just to check: are you really installing on apache or apache2? I got it succesfully working with apache2 with fcgid.

Can you make it work with normal cgi? Do you use rewrite rules? What apache modules do you have running?

My public/.htaccess consists of the following:

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI


RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /tracks

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] 

My /etc/apache2/apache2.conf contains:

AddHandler fcgi-script .fcgi
Alias /tracks /usr/src/tracks-1.042/public

<Directory /usr/src/tracks-1.042/public>
  Options ExecCGI FollowSymlinks
  AllowOverride All
</Directory> 

I log in with “http://lampje/tracks” (the machine hosting tracks is called lampje).

Bye,
Steven

bsag

Posted: 27 August 2006 10:33 AM

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Joined 2006-03-05

Idan: Zteven’s .htaccess is probably worth trying if you’re still having problems. That said, getting FCGI working with Apache is a bit of an ordeal, and running under CGI is very slow. Since this is your own machine, I would strongly advise getting lighttpd installed (particularly if you’re not running Apache for anything else. It’s light, fast, and very easy to configure (in fact, once you’ve got it installed, running script/server will run lighttpd automatically and install a lighttpd.conf in the config directory, which you can then edit as you wish.

There’s a package for Debian unstable, or you can install from source.