# Empty pages served from Lighttpd + SCGI? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 14, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/empty-pages-served-from-lighttpd-scgi/50209 "2005-12-14T08:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/53a042/32.png) [@Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Francois_B)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/empty-pages-served-from-lighttpd-scgi/50209/1 "2005-12-14T08:25:48Z")
Hi ! I bought myself a server at RimuHosting. I am now setting things up on it. I have two sites. The first one is working fine - pages get served, Rails is up and running. The second one, though, I can’t run. I can serve static content, but dynamic content is a no-no. I’d need some help here - just a pointer to how to enable more debugging information would help. Here’s the server’s error log T:20: (request.c.293) fd: 9 request-len: 465 GET /account/login HTTP/1.1 Host: sms-gateway.teksol.info User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,_/_;q=0.5 Accept-Language: fr-ca,fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 ```auto Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 T:20: (response.c.174) -- splitting Request-URI T:20: (response.c.175) Request-URI : /account/login T:20: (response.c.176) URI-scheme : http T:20: (response.c.177) URI-authority: sms-gateway.teksol.info T:20: (response.c.178) URI-path : /account/login T:20: (response.c.179) URI-query : T:20: (response.c.229) -- sanatising URI T:20: (response.c.230) URI-path : /account/login T:20: (response.c.302) -- before doc_root T:20: (response.c.303) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.304) Rel-Path : /account/login T:20: (response.c.305) Path : T:20: (response.c.353) -- after doc_root T:20: (response.c.354) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.355) Rel-Path : /account/login T:20: (response.c.356) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/account/login T:20: (response.c.373) -- logical -> physical T:20: (response.c.374) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.375) Rel-Path : /account/login T:20: (response.c.376) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/account/login T:20: (response.c.393) -- handling physical path T:20: (response.c.394) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/account/login T:20: (response.c.434) -- file not found T:20: (response.c.435) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/account/login T:20: (response.c.174) -- splitting Request-URI T:20: (response.c.175) Request-URI : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.176) URI-scheme : http T:20: (response.c.177) URI-authority: sms-gateway.teksol.info T:20: (response.c.178) URI-path : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.179) URI-query : T:20: (response.c.229) -- sanatising URI T:20: (response.c.230) URI-path : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (mod_scgi.c.2761) handling it in mod_scgi T:20: (response.c.302) -- before doc_root T:20: (response.c.303) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.304) Rel-Path : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.305) Path : T:20: (response.c.353) -- after doc_root T:20: (response.c.354) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.355) Rel-Path : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.356) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.373) -- logical -> physical T:20: (response.c.374) Doc-Root : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public T:20: (response.c.375) Rel-Path : /dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.376) Path : /var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public/dispatch.scgi T:20: (response.c.101) Response-Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:57:20 GMT Content-Length: 0 Server: lighttpd/1.4.7 Looking at the log, we can see that mod_scgi is handling the request. The SCGI process is started and running (scgi_cluster status reports one process, as configured). Lighty's config file is thus (much abridged): server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_redirect", "mod_access", "mod_scgi", "mod_compress", "mod_accesslog" ) $HTTP["host"] == "sms-gateway.teksol.info" { accesslog.filename = "/var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/log/access.log" server.document-root = "/var/www/sms-gateway.teksol.info/public" server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.scgi" scgi.server = ( "dispatch.scgi" => ( "server1" => ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 10400, "check-local" => "disable")))} If you want to see the file served from the process, look at this: http://sms-gateway.teksol.info/account/login Static files work fine: http://sms-gateway.teksol.info/stylesheets/scaffold.css I am really at a loss to explain what the problem is... Thanks ! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/53a042/32.png) [@Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Francois_B)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/empty-pages-served-from-lighttpd-scgi/50209/2 "2005-12-16T21:44:08Z")
Hi ! Any takers for this ? I’m really at my wit’s end… [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/34845](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/34845) 2005/12/14, Francois B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/53a042/32.png) [@Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Francois_B)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/empty-pages-served-from-lighttpd-scgi/50209/3 "2005-12-17T19:24:59Z")
Hello everyone, 2005/12/16, Francois B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Any takers for this ? I’m really at my wit’s end… > [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/34845](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/34845) I finally found what the problem was. Bad user experience, though. Anyway, I configured an ActiveRecord session store. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to add myself a migration that would add the sessions table. I stumbled upon that after I tried going back to basics: rails test, script/generate controller Test - works, accept cookie. Checkout from repository, try using script/server - fail, but see a 500 error. _Nothing in the logs_. Notice active\_record store configuration, check DB schema, no sessions table. Run rake create\_sessions\_table, try again, SUCCESS. Rails should have complained, and LOUDLY that the sessions table did not exist. Bye ! ---
**Author:** ![Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/53a042/32.png) [@Francois\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Francois_B)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 7:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/empty-pages-served-from-lighttpd-scgi/50209/4 "2005-12-18T07:36:05Z")
Ooh, that’s not good at all. I’ll mention this to the important folks. Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:36:53 -0500