Deploying Radiant on site5

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I have been trying to deploy radiant on site5, and I think I am close to
succeeding.

However, when go to the frontpage it says:

Application error

Rails application failed to start properly

In the error log this is the message:

[Sat Jul 12 07:58:44 2008] [notice] mod_fcgid: process

/home/chainrea/public_html/dispatch.fcgi(24336) exit(communication
error), terminated by calling exit(), return code: 116

So i guess something is wrong with som fast cgi stuff? How can i fix it?

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I only got this far by combining these two tutorials:

http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=14847

and

http://wiki.radiantcms.org/How_To_Deploy_on_Site5

I have tried doing it over and over to recheck for typo’s and so on but
with no luck.

But maybe it was a bad idea to use two tutorials and jump to the other
one whenever I got stuck?

But when I only follow this tutorial:

http://wiki.radiantcms.org/How_To_Deploy_on_Site5

I get stuck at:

Unpack the application using the radiant command into the directory
radapp (it will create the directory if it does not exist).

$ ~/gems/bin/radiant --database mysql radapp

I then get this error:

/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem radiant (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError) from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in activate’
from /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in `gem’
from /home/chainrea/gems/bin/radiant:18

Please help. Right now I don’t need to deploy something specific - I
just want to get the basic radiant up and running remotely.

(I hove no problems with getting it up and running locally.)

3

OKAY now I got through to the end of the tutorial with:

Create the admin user (press enter for defaults).
Name (Administrator):
Username (admin):
Password (radiant):

Initializing configuration…OK

Select a database template:

  1. Empty
  2. Simple Blog
  3. Styled Blog
    [1-3]: 2

Creating Snippets…OK
Creating Pages…OK
Creating Layouts…OK
Creating Page parts…OK

Finished.

But when I go to my site it stil says:

Application error

Rails application failed to start properly

:frowning:

Please…

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Hello here are the results

gem env:

[chainrea@belong ~]$ gem env
RubyGems Environment:

  • RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.2.0
  • RUBY VERSION: 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/chainrea/gems
  • RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby
  • EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/chainrea/gems/bin
  • RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    • ruby
    • x86-linux
  • GEM PATHS:
    • /home/chainrea/gems
    • /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • GEM CONFIGURATION:
    • :update_sources => true
    • :verbose => true
    • :benchmark => false
    • :backtrace => false
    • :bulk_threshold => 1000
    • “gemhome” => “/home/chainrea/gems”
    • “gempath” => [“/home/chainrea/gems”, “/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8”]
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

cd /path/to/radiant - I’m not shure about this one? Do you want to know
were radiant is installed or were my “radiant app” is?

ruby dispatch.fcgi:

[chainrea@belong ~]$ cd radapp
[chainrea@belong radapp]$ cd public
[chainrea@belong public]$ ruby dispatch.fcgi
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Status: 200 OK
Last-Modified: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:18:47 GMT
X-Runtime: 0.00535
ETag: “d691833cfe4ba66ce222822f471049dd”
Content-Length: 980

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Oh now I understand with regards to “cd path to radiant” - you just
meant that i had to go to my radiant app and execute ruby dispatch.fcgi:

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Hi Jan,

Try this: Open an ssh terminal. Run the following commands and post
the
results.

gem env
cd /path/to/radiant
ruby dispatch.fcgi

You can also run ruby with the debug flag on (-d) but i find that even a
working installation generates a lot of spurious complaints.

Good luck!

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jan frederik Poulsen [email protected]

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I just want to crarify in case others run in to the same issue - all my
problems were due to wrong folder permissions.

For some reason the radiant command that builds the site/app gives the
folders a wrong permission (for running on site5). To get this working
simply change all the folder permissions to 755 (also the app folder it
self i think.)

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Site5 helped me - kudos to their high level of service.

Apparently it was an issue with folder permissions “755”.