# Can't seems to get rails app running with Passenger **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [May 4, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132 "2009-05-04T15:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/1 "2009-05-04T15:01:36Z")
Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. I am new to Ruby on Rails and deployment. What I have done so far is successfully installed Passenger into Apache 2.3 on my laptop. Followed the Passenger user guide and passenger-memory-stats command is running. I copied my rails application to: /var/www/html/accounts, did a chown to root. In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, there is a line at the end where I included my virtual host and rails app setup: Include conf/rails.conf Here is the details of rails.conf LoadModule passenger\_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby \ ServerName fcore DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts RailsBaseURI /acct RailsEnv production \ Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks Order deny,allow Allow from all on typing the URL in FF browser, [http://fcore/accounts/public](http://fcore/accounts/public) and clicking on: About your application’s environment link, I get The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found on this server. Actually, am not sure how this whole thing works. During my application development, I could do script/server and do a URL on FF [http://localhost:3000/accounts/items](http://localhost:3000/accounts/items) to see the rails app output. How do I get to see the my rails app output with Passenger on Apache? Thanks, –kmhui ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/2 "2009-05-05T18:53:31Z")
Km Hui wrote: > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > Here is the details of rails.conf > > LoadModule passenger\_module > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > \ > ServerName fcore > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > RailsBaseURI /acct > RailsEnv production > > \ > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > Order deny,allow > Allow from all > Thanks, > –kmhui Try pointing your DocumentRoot at /var/www/html/accounts/public. I’m no Apache expert, but if the changing the DocumentRoot doesn’t work, try commenting out the Directory directive to make sure the Order deny.allow isn’t interfering. HTH, Jim ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/3 "2009-05-05T23:16:53Z")
JA Coulter wrote: > Km Hui wrote: > > > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > > > Here is the details of rails.conf > > > > LoadModule passenger\_module > > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > > > \ > > ServerName fcore > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > > RailsBaseURI /acct > > RailsEnv production > > > > \ > > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > > Order deny,allow > > Allow from all > > > Thanks, > > –kmhui > > Try pointing your DocumentRoot at /var/www/html/accounts/public. > > I’m no Apache expert, but if the changing the DocumentRoot doesn’t work, > try commenting out the Directory directive to make sure the Order > deny.allow isn’t interfering. > > HTH, > > Jim Thanks Jim for helping. I tried it but it didn’t work. Changed the DocumentRoot, comment out the Directory directive. Somehow, rails still isn’t working. Either the rails framework or the routing is not work. Am beginning to wonder if its something to do with Apache config, but am not sure what needs to be changed cos I already followed Passenger’s apache config instructions. My httpd errorlog shows: [Wed May 06 04:59:54 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 configured – resuming normal operations [Wed May 06 04:59:58 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/items When I point to /var/www/html/accounts/public, index.html could render but the application environment link shows “The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found on this server.” I tried script/server in the rails apps at /var/www/html/accounts and the application environment link worked. It’s running mongrel though. ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/4 "2009-05-06T00:49:41Z")
Km Hui wrote: > JA Coulter wrote: > > > Km Hui wrote: > > > > > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > > > > > Here is the details of rails.conf > > > > > > LoadModule passenger\_module > > > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > > > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > > > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > > > > > \ > > > ServerName fcore > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > > > RailsBaseURI /acct > > > RailsEnv production > > > > > > \ > > > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > > > Order deny,allow > > > Allow from all > > > > > Thanks, > > > –kmhui > > > > Try pointing your DocumentRoot at /var/www/html/accounts/public. > > > > I’m no Apache expert, but if the changing the DocumentRoot doesn’t work, > > try commenting out the Directory directive to make sure the Order > > deny.allow isn’t interfering. > > > > HTH, > > > > Jim > > Thanks Jim for helping. > > I tried it but it didn’t work. Changed the DocumentRoot, comment out the > Directory directive. Somehow, rails still isn’t working. Either the > rails framework or the routing is not work. Am beginning to wonder if > its something to do with Apache config, but am not sure what needs to be > changed cos I already followed Passenger’s apache config instructions. > > My httpd errorlog shows: > > [Wed May 06 04:59:54 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 > Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 configured – resuming normal operations > [Wed May 06 04:59:58 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not > exist: /var/www/html/items > > When I point to /var/www/html/accounts/public, index.html could render > but the application environment link shows > > “The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found > on this server.” > > I tried script/server in the rails apps at /var/www/html/accounts and > the application environment link worked. It’s running mongrel though. This is my virtual host configuration for Apache2 with Passenger installed on my pre-deployment server: \ DocumentRoot /home/emeraldsails/www/current/emerald/public Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None My site works fine with this - as you can see it’s pretty basic. If you haven’t done so already, try commenting out: RailsBaseURI /acct RailsEnv production I’m unfamiliar with the RailsBaseURI directive - if commenting it out works you may not need it. Cheers, Jim ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/5 "2009-05-06T02:12:42Z")
JA Coulter wrote: > Km Hui wrote: > > > JA Coulter wrote: > > > > > Km Hui wrote: > > > > > > > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > > > > > > > Here is the details of rails.conf > > > > > > > > LoadModule passenger\_module > > > > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > > > > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > > > > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > > > > > > > \ > > > > ServerName fcore > > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > > > > RailsBaseURI /acct > > > > RailsEnv production > > > > > > > > \ > > > > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > > > > Order deny,allow > > > > Allow from all > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > –kmhui > > > > > > Try pointing your DocumentRoot at /var/www/html/accounts/public. > > > > > > I’m no Apache expert, but if the changing the DocumentRoot doesn’t work, > > > try commenting out the Directory directive to make sure the Order > > > deny.allow isn’t interfering. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Jim > > > > Thanks Jim for helping. > > > > I tried it but it didn’t work. Changed the DocumentRoot, comment out the > > Directory directive. Somehow, rails still isn’t working. Either the > > rails framework or the routing is not work. Am beginning to wonder if > > its something to do with Apache config, but am not sure what needs to be > > changed cos I already followed Passenger’s apache config instructions. > > > > My httpd errorlog shows: > > > > [Wed May 06 04:59:54 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 > > Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 configured – resuming normal operations > > [Wed May 06 04:59:58 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not > > exist: /var/www/html/items > > > > When I point to /var/www/html/accounts/public, index.html could render > > but the application environment link shows > > > > “The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found > > on this server.” > > > > I tried script/server in the rails apps at /var/www/html/accounts and > > the application environment link worked. It’s running mongrel though. > > This is my virtual host configuration for Apache2 with Passenger > installed on my pre-deployment server: > > \ > > DocumentRoot /home/emeraldsails/www/current/emerald/public > > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > > My site works fine with this - as you can see it’s pretty basic. > > If you haven’t done so already, try commenting out: > > RailsBaseURI /acct > RailsEnv production > > I’m unfamiliar with the RailsBaseURI directive - if commenting it out > works you may not need it. > > Cheers, > > Jim Jim, Simplified it as you suggested, but didn’t work. Some questions about your configuration: DocumentRoot /home/emeraldsails/www/current/emerald/public 1. What ownership or permission do you have for the DocumentRoot? I tried mine with as well as chown to apache but didn’t work. 2. Did you also do anything to your httpd.conf file? In my error log, it shows [Wed May 06 08:04:18 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/accounts/items [Wed May 06 08:04:25 [Wed May 06 08:04:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/items Seems as if its not translated (route.rb…) and Apache was actually looking for ‘items’ in the document root. With script/server, [http://localhost:3000/items](http://localhost:3000/items) works. ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/6 "2009-06-20T07:34:56Z")
Hi Km HUI, Try change the above: RailsBaseURI /acct to RailsBaseURI /accounts In my newer server I have set like this: ServerName myrails DocumentRoot /var/www/myrails/public LogFormat "%t \"%r\" %\>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" myrails CustomLog /var/log/apache2/meurails.log myrails RailsEnv development RailsBaseUri /myrails You will only change the RailsEnv if you made the necessary changes under config/environments files to run like production or test. I hope this can help you! Look for more information at [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/deployment/apache-passenger](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/deployment/apache-passenger) Regards, Felippe Silvestre ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/7 "2009-06-29T08:22:51Z")
Km Hui wrote: > JA Coulter wrote: > > > Km Hui wrote: > > > > > JA Coulter wrote: > > > > > > > Km Hui wrote: > > > > > > > > > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > > > > > > > > > Here is the details of rails.conf > > > > > > > > > > LoadModule passenger\_module > > > > > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > > > > > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > > > > > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > > > > > > > > > \ > > > > > ServerName fcore > > > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > > > > > RailsBaseURI /acct > > > > > RailsEnv production > > > > > > > > > > \ > > > > > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > > > > > Order deny,allow > > > > > Allow from all > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > –kmhui > > > > > > > > Try pointing your DocumentRoot at /var/www/html/accounts/public. > > > > > > > > I’m no Apache expert, but if the changing the DocumentRoot doesn’t work, > > > > try commenting out the Directory directive to make sure the Order > > > > deny.allow isn’t interfering. > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > Thanks Jim for helping. > > > > > > I tried it but it didn’t work. Changed the DocumentRoot, comment out the > > > Directory directive. Somehow, rails still isn’t working. Either the > > > rails framework or the routing is not work. Am beginning to wonder if > > > its something to do with Apache config, but am not sure what needs to be > > > changed cos I already followed Passenger’s apache config instructions. > > > > > > My httpd errorlog shows: > > > > > > [Wed May 06 04:59:54 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 > > > Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 configured – resuming normal operations > > > [Wed May 06 04:59:58 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not > > > exist: /var/www/html/items > > > > > > When I point to /var/www/html/accounts/public, index.html could render > > > but the application environment link shows > > > > > > “The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found > > > on this server.” > > > > > > I tried script/server in the rails apps at /var/www/html/accounts and > > > the application environment link worked. It’s running mongrel though. > > > > This is my virtual host configuration for Apache2 with Passenger > > installed on my pre-deployment server: > > > > \ > > > > DocumentRoot /home/emeraldsails/www/current/emerald/public > > > > Options FollowSymLinks > > AllowOverride None > > > > My site works fine with this - as you can see it’s pretty basic. > > > > If you haven’t done so already, try commenting out: > > > > RailsBaseURI /acct > > RailsEnv production > > > > I’m unfamiliar with the RailsBaseURI directive - if commenting it out > > works you may not need it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jim > > Jim, > > Simplified it as you suggested, but didn’t work. Some questions about > your configuration: > > DocumentRoot /home/emeraldsails/www/current/emerald/public > > 1. What ownership or permission do you have for the DocumentRoot? I > tried mine with as well as chown to apache but didn’t work. > > 2. Did you also do anything to your httpd.conf file? > > In my error log, it shows > > [Wed May 06 08:04:18 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not > exist: /var/www/html/accounts/items > [Wed May 06 08:04:25 > [Wed May 06 08:04:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not > exist: /var/www/html/items > > Seems as if its not translated (route.rb…) and Apache was actually > looking for ‘items’ in the document root. > With script/server, [http://localhost:3000/items](http://localhost:3000/items) works. Hi Km Hui, have you solved the issue, if not try this 1.) Add the passenger module in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf itself, just before the # Include the virtual host configurations line. 2.) in the virtual host file just add these things this will make your app work \ ServerName fcore # ServerAlias DocumentRoot “/var/www/html/accounts/public” RailsEnv production RailsMaxPoolSize 2 \ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride none Order allow,deny Allow from all try these steps and revert if you find any errors. Rgds TML ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/8 "2009-07-07T13:17:19Z")
Km Hui, The main thing you have to note here is that the “properties” listing will not be done for an external request or for the production environemt.So you will not be able to see it using apache or any web server.You can just view properties using the script/server. You needn’t set RailsBaseURI as your apps will be by default handled by mod\_rails.Did you do that for any apps in the public floder?If so thats fine then.And you need not set RailsEnv to production as by default mod\_rails fires the apps on the production env. Thanks, Kilari. [http://kilari.co.in](http://kilari.co.in) Km Hui wrote: > Need help with deploying rails on Passenger in running on Apache. > > I am new to Ruby on Rails and deployment. What I have done so far is > successfully installed Passenger into Apache 2.3 on my laptop. Followed > the Passenger user guide and passenger-memory-stats command is running. > I copied my rails application to: /var/www/html/accounts, did a chown to > root. > > In /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, there is a line at the end where I > included my virtual host and rails app setup: > Include conf/rails.conf > > Here is the details of rails.conf > > LoadModule passenger\_module > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/mod\_passenger.so > PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2 > PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby > > \ > ServerName fcore > DocumentRoot /var/www/html/accounts > RailsBaseURI /acct > RailsEnv production > > \ > Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks > Order deny,allow > Allow from all > > on typing the URL in FF browser, [http://fcore/accounts/public](http://fcore/accounts/public) and > clicking on: About your application’s environment link, I get > > The requested URL /accounts/public/rails/info/properties was not found > on this server. > > Actually, am not sure how this whole thing works. During my application > development, I could do script/server and do a URL on FF > [http://localhost:3000/accounts/items](http://localhost:3000/accounts/items) to see the rails app output. How do > I get to see the my rails app output with Passenger on Apache? > > Thanks, > –kmhui ---
**Author:** ![kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/a4c791/32.png) [@kmhui](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kmhui)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-seems-to-get-rails-app-running-with-passenger/167132/9 "2009-07-08T23:19:08Z")
Thanks Kilari. Will give it a try. regards, –kmhui