# Dreamhost and fcgi....help! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770 "2006-03-14T02:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/1 "2006-03-14T02:37:18Z")
I’ve got my app running under cgi, but I keep getting pwned by fcgi. - app is installed at [www.mydomain.com](http://www.mydomain.com) - web root is [www.mydomain.com/public](http://www.mydomain.com/public) (this works w/ regular cgi) - /public has correct permissions - .htaccess: rewrite rule changed to use .fcgi - shebang on dispatch.fcgi and dispatch.rb is set to #!/usr/bin/ruby1.8 (also tried just ruby) -environment.rb : running in prod Any ideas? o\_O ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/2 "2006-03-14T03:08:33Z")
You don’t say that you’ve got execute permissions on dispatch.\*… do you? Also, I had some issues on DH that could only be fixed by "kill -9"ing the dispatch.fcgi processes. Finally, to keep my site stable I had to add one of these to my crontab: \*/10 \* \* \* \* /usr/bin/curl [http://www.direct-debit.com.au/blah](http://www.direct-debit.com.au/blah) -o /dev/null --stderr /dev/null (where /blah is a path that is NOT cached) HTH, Dan www.peoplehub.com.au ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/3 "2006-03-14T03:08:34Z")
That crontab was supposed to be one line, not two… ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/4 "2006-03-14T03:15:14Z")
I also did a 755 on dispatch\*…no joy ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/5 "2006-03-14T03:23:47Z")
2006/3/13, Chris S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > I also did a 755 on dispatch\*…no joy I have this issue with DreamHost too. Sometimes I simply have to wait a while before the app will restart. This is a problem. Wait half an hour and try again. Bye ! ---
**Author:** ![yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/8e8cbc/32.png) [@yetanothergeek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yetanothergeek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dreamhost-and-fcgi-help/54770/6 "2006-03-14T14:56:35Z")
You’re right. I tried my app today and it’s running fine. That was still really frustrating… François Beausoleil wrote: > 2006/3/13, Chris S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > I also did a 755 on dispatch\*…no joy > > I have this issue with DreamHost too. Sometimes I simply have to wait > a while before the app will restart. This is a problem. Wait half an > hour and try again. > > Bye !