# Deploying with Passenger question **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896 "2009-06-10T03:24:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/1 "2009-06-10T03:24:38Z")
Hi, I followed the instructions for deploying a site with Passenger from the screencast that is on the Phusion Passenger site and it didn’t work. I am using Dreamhost to host my site- could the problem be on their end? Someone suggested that I do: passenger-install-apache2-module on my command line but I already did that when I first installed Passenger and the Passenger Pref pane and I don’t understand why you would have to install the apache2 module again when you want to deploy a site. Here are the steps I followed: I added this to my configuration file underneath the Loadmodule text (the same place Ryan B. pasted it in the screencast): \ ServerName [www.blah.com](http://www.blah.com) DocumentRoot /Sites/work/blah/public/ Then I restarted apache: sudo apachectl graceful and when I go to my sites url I get a “Index of /” page. Should I change the name of the server from [www.blah.com](http://www.blah.com) to the name of my Dreamhost private server? I don’t know if this is relevant but I am using Mac OSX 10.5.7 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time, Calvin ---
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/2 "2009-06-10T04:14:55Z")
Oh- “[blah.com](http://blah.com)” is just placeholder text for what my my servername really is not the actual [blah.com](http://blah.com) site which i did not create and am not involved with. ---
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/3 "2009-06-10T04:40:04Z")
Just throwing the obvious out there since you didn’t specify if you did it or not: The LoadModule, PassengerRoot, and PassengerRuby lines are in your apache conf file right? If not, that’s your problem. ---
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/4 "2009-06-10T05:34:25Z")
Yes- the LoadModule, PassengerRoot and PassengerRuby lines are in my apache conf file. ---
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/5 "2009-06-10T12:35:56Z")
What do your Apache logs say when you restart the server? You should see a line similar to: [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod\_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 Phusion\_Passenger/2.2.2 configured – resuming normal operations -Matt ---
**Author:** ![calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@calvin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/calvin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/deploying-with-passenger-question/169896/6 "2009-06-10T21:05:21Z")
It turns out that the instructions for deploying a site with passenger are different for Dreamhost. You have to enable Passenger in a domain management panel and then FTP your application. However, Dreamhost admits that their process of deploying and starting up a Rails application does not fully work… I get a Passenger error message when I go to my site’s url: [www.pwrpop.com](http://www.pwrpop.com) and I don’t know what steps to take to fix the problem.