# 1.1RC and Lighttpd **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-1rc-and-lighttpd/55859 "2006-03-24T10:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-1rc-and-lighttpd/55859/1 "2006-03-24T10:07:34Z")
I started what I thought was going to be a 30 minute project on the train this morning to write a little timetracker for myself. Amongst other things (don’t have a model called Task as it conflicts with Rake at the moment, don’t have a model called Action as it disappears in the hash when you submit a form :-), I had to use Webrick as Lighty complained about an unknown variable CWD. This looks to have been added to make the fcgi path absolute rather than relative, but I get an error because it’s not set. I can’t figure out how to do a fulltext search in Trac to see if it’s been reported. A simple Browser find on the faults lists didn’t show up ‘CWD’ in the subject lines. So any help on any of the following would be appreciated: 1. Is this a known bug or should I report it? (rails fault list junkies?) 2. Is it possible to do a fulltext search in Trac, if so, how ? (Trac experts ?) 3. Is there a workaround? I suspect I just want to init th variable to RAILS\_ROOT explicitly, but I’m not sure if the config file is missing an explicit variable set, or if CWD is a ‘magic’ variable thats just supposed to work, but isn’t. (Lighty users ?) I’m on Tiger .5, using the 1.1RC gem, Ruby .4 and Lighty .7 A. ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-1rc-and-lighttpd/55859/2 "2006-03-24T13:59:23Z")
On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Alan F. wrote: > I started what I thought was going to be a 30 minute project on the > train this morning to write a little timetracker for myself. > > Amongst other things (don’t have a model called Task as it conflicts > with Rake at the moment, don’t have a model called Action as it > disappears in the hash when you submit a form :-), I had to use > Webrick > as Lighty complained about an unknown variable CWD. Check your version of Lighty. I believe the CWD thing is fairly new, grab the latest. -Scott ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-1rc-and-lighttpd/55859/3 "2006-03-24T14:17:30Z")
Scott B. wrote: > On Mar 24, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Alan F. wrote: > > > I started what I thought was going to be a 30 minute project on the > > train this morning to write a little timetracker for myself. > > > > Amongst other things (don’t have a model called Task as it conflicts > > with Rake at the moment, don’t have a model called Action as it > > disappears in the hash when you submit a form :-), I had to use > > Webrick > > as Lighty complained about an unknown variable CWD. > > Check your version of Lighty. I believe the CWD thing is fairly new, > grab the latest. > > -Scott Thanks Scott. I was following the Hivelogic tutorial, so I suspect my version (.8 rather than .7 as I originally posted) is out of date as I’d have pasted the url rather than browsed for latest. A. ---
**Author:** ![snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@snowbug](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snowbug)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/1-1rc-and-lighttpd/55859/4 "2006-03-24T14:39:40Z")
Alan F. wrote: > Scott B. wrote: > > Check your version of Lighty. I believe the CWD thing is fairly new, > > grab the latest. That sorted it. Thanks again. A.