I got an free hosting package with ruby on rails based on Fastcgi (Part of Apache). I do not have SSH access, so I can not create applications on the server. Therefore I want to bring my own applications (I created on FreeBSD) to the server. But it does not work, I have no idea how to tell the server to execute the ruby files. My home direction looks like: /etc /mail /public_ftp /public_html /tmp /www (the /www is an alias to /public_html) inside the /public_html there is a Folder called /cgi I tried to place my application there instead of the /public_html direction but it does not work. Can you please help me, because the hosting provider does not know enough about Ruby on Rails to help me, he just installed a Package and it said Ruby on Rails was successful added ! Regrades Snoop1990
on 30.12.2007 00:14
on 30.12.2007 00:16
By the way I already found this on an other free webhost using a similar setup ! http://www.profusehost.net/forum/knowledge-base/10540-how-run-ruby-rails.html I did that but I do not know where to place the files !
on 30.12.2007 01:10
Ok I found out I have to use /public_html/cgi-bin/ I tried an easy ruby script (called script1.rb) #!/usr/bin/ruby puts 'Hello World!' and get: "Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, xxxx@xxxxxxxx.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.37 Server at xxxxxxxx.net Port 80" (I killed the changed the names!) I also tried the application I had compile on freebsd I opened : http://xxxxxxxx.net/cgi-bin/<Application name>/public/dispatch.cgi and get : "Application error Rails application failed to start properly"" I also tried http://xxxxxxxx.net/cgi-bin/<Application name>/public/dispatch.fcgi But there was no out put, just a clear page. So the directory /public_html/cgi-bin is executable, but I do not know how to use it. My application is a folder with some subfolders (an standard rails application). Is it possible to execute these applications with FastCgi ?