Dreamhost deployment question - can't get it to work

Rails Deployment
1

Hi all,

I ran the depot application based on the book “Agile web development
with Rails” on my local machine and it works great.

Now I follow “http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Ruby_on_Rails” to setup on
dreamhost, I have depot and mydomain.com at the same level.

After everything is done, when I type “http://mydomain.com” I hit this
error

"Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use
an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

Do I missing anything here?

Thanks for your help
-Fen

2

It sounds like DH is having trouble finding something to run. Did you
configure the domain to point to public/ inside of wherever you’ve put
the application, e.g., /home/yourusername/mydomain.com/public? And of
course “FastCGI” needs to be enabled on the domain.

Jun-Dai

3

Hi,

Just a couple more problems that might trip you up.

You have to set the environment variable to Production, othewise FCGI
won’t
work.

Make sure when migrating any databases you specify RAILSENV=production ,
or
you’ll be migrating to development by default.

Oh, and make sure you have stuff CHMODed correctly, or it won’t work.

(Jun-Dai sounds like he/she has it nailed with the site root issue, but
these are extra gotchas)

Hope some of these help.
Spencer

4

There are few things you can do to trouble shoot the problems:

  • Go inside public and run dispatch.fcgi from commmand line.
  • Run ./script/server -e production to see if there’s any errors

On Nov 13, 6:22 pm, Fen L. [email protected]