Rails With Apache?!?!?!?!?!

Rails
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I am at my wits end trying to get Rails running through Apache. After
digging through countless “how-tos” on the web, I’m stuck.

I’m running Suse 10, Apache 2, and want to be able to enter in my PCs IP
and a subdirectory and bring up the Rails upp, e.g.
192.168.10.10/railsapp

But I cannot figure how to do so.

This is my virtualhost declaration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName railsapp
DocumentRoot /home/nathan/rails/railsapp/public
<Directory /home/nathan/rails/railsapp/public >
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny

Can anyone point me in the right direction for how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,

Nathan

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Nathan M. wrote:

I’m running Suse 10, Apache 2, and want to be able to enter in my PCs IP
and a subdirectory and bring up the Rails upp, e.g.
192.168.10.10/railsapp

What errors do you actually get? What gets logged in the server
logs when the browser fails to get your app?

But I cannot figure how to do so.

This is my virtualhost declaration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName railsapp

If that is the name of your application should it be a server name
as well?

   DocumentRoot /home/nathan/rails/railsapp/public
   <Directory /home/nathan/rails/railsapp/public >
           Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
           AllowOverride all
           Allow from all
           Order allow,deny
   </Directory>

and you have the stuff like:

AddType application/x-httpd-eruby .rhtml
Action application/x-http-eruby /cgi-bin/eruby

setup as well?

http://www.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/GettingStartedWithRails

Can anyone point me in the right direction for how to accomplish this?

http://www.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/GettingStartedWithRails

was of help to me as far as I got. I’ve not finished yet.

Thanks in advance,

Nathan

    Hugh
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On 25 Nov 2005, at 16:46, Nathan M. wrote:

           Allow from all
           Order allow,deny
   </Directory>

And what happens when you point a browser to:
http://railsapp/

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Nathan M. wrote:

I am at my wits end trying to get Rails running through Apache. After
digging through countless ?how-tos? on the web, I?m stuck.

I?m running Suse 10, Apache 2, and want to be able to enter in my PCs IP
and a subdirectory and bring up the Rails upp, e.g. 192.168.10.10/railsapp

But I cannot figure how to do so.

What you are looking for is advice on how to run multiple Rails apps on
the same server, without using virtual hosts. I haven’t tried it yet,
but Scott L.'s advice here looks promising:

He says you should have a FastCgiServer line for each application.

See comments 2 and 8 on the article, and Scott’s responses.

Example (from comment 2)

FastCgiServer /rails_app_1/dispatch.fcgi
-idle-timeout 120
-initial-env RAILS_ENV=production
-processes 10

FastCgiServer /rails_app_2/dispatch.fcgi
-idle-timeout 120
-initial-env RAILS_ENV=production
-processes 10

(note that the numbers of statically allocated processes here are high -
Scott says 2 should be fine unless you are dealing with heavy traffic)

Please tell us if that works for you.

regards

Justin