# Error in dispatch.fcgi **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 15, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452 "2006-06-15T11:04:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/1 "2006-06-15T11:04:49Z")
Yesterday, our of nothing my server went down… Rails application failed to start properly Imediately i started checking my logs and found quickly that something was wrong with the dispatch.fcgi or its function. I use FCGI, and it had been working perfectly with Apache 2.0.55, MySQL 5.0, Ruby 1.8.2 and Rails 1.1.2. What really got me wondering was that I did nothing. One day it worked perfectly, the next day it didnt… no changes made inbetween… I have the following setup: dispatch.fcgi: #!c:/programfiler/ruby/bin/ruby # # You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log (a log of unhandled # exceptions which forced the FastCGI instance to exit, great for debugging) # and the number of requests to process before running garbage collection. # # By default, the FastCGI crash log is RAILS\_ROOT/log/fastcgi.crash.log # and the GC period is nil (turned off). A reasonable number of requests # could range from 10-100 depending on the memory footprint of your app. # # Example: # # Default log path, normal GC behavior. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! # # # Default log path, 50 requests between GC. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 50 # # # Custom log path, normal GC behavior. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! ‘/var/log/myapp\_fcgi\_crash.log’ # require File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/…/config/environment” require ‘fcgi\_handler’ RailsFCGIHandler.process! Yes, the reference to the ruby/bin directory is correct. .htaccess: # General Apache options AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI # If you don’t want Rails to look in certain directories, # use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won’t rewrite certain requests # # Example: # RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/notrails.\* # RewriteRule .\* - [L] # Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails # By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow # # For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one # # Example: # RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] RewriteEngine On # If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive, # then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file. # # Example: # Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public # RewriteBase /myrailsapp RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] # In case Rails experiences terminal errors # Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead # # Example: # ErrorDocument 500 /500.html ErrorDocument 500 “ ## Application error Rails application failed to start properly” the errorlog in apache: [Thu Jun 15 10:32:06 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) mod\_fastcgi/2.4.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.3.1 configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Jun 15 10:32:06 2006] [notice] Server built: Oct 9 2005 19:16:56 [Thu Jun 15 10:32:06 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5588 [Thu Jun 15 10:32:06 2006] [notice] Child 5588: Child process is running [Thu Jun 15 10:32:06 2006] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized [Thu Jun 15 10:32:07 2006] [notice] Child 5588: Acquired the start mutex. [Thu Jun 15 10:32:07 2006] [notice] Child 1880: Released the start mutex [Thu Jun 15 10:32:07 2006] [notice] Child 5588: Starting 250 worker threads. [Thu Jun 15 10:32:08 2006] [notice] Child 1880: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit. [Thu Jun 15 10:32:08 2006] [notice] Child 1880: All worker threads have exited. [Thu Jun 15 10:32:09 2006] [notice] Child 1880: Child process is exiting [Thu Jun 15 10:32:11 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” started (pid 3152) [Thu Jun 15 10:32:11 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 3152) terminated with exit with status ‘1’ [Thu Jun 15 10:32:16 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 2100) [Thu Jun 15 10:32:16 2006] [error] [client 84.48.33.250] (OS 109)Datakanalen er avsluttet. : FastCGI: comm with server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” aborted: GetOverlappedResult() failed [Thu Jun 15 10:32:16 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 2100) terminated with exit with status ‘1’ [Thu Jun 15 10:32:16 2006] [error] [client 84.48.33.250] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” [Thu Jun 15 10:32:21 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 2476) [Thu Jun 15 10:32:21 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 2476) terminated with exit with status ‘1’ [Thu Jun 15 10:32:26 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 4592) [Thu Jun 15 10:32:26 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 4592) terminated with exit with status ‘1’ [Thu Jun 15 10:32:26 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:27 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:28 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:29 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:30 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:31 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:32 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:33 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:34 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:35 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:36 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds [Thu Jun 15 10:32:37 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to 600 seconds http.conf important parts of it: \ ServerName [lagraciadedios.org](http://lagraciadedios.org) DocumentRoot “C:/Website/pagina/public” \ Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Allow from all Order allow,deny AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi fastcgi-crashlog: [14/Jun/2006:09:22:00 :: 5452] Ignoring unsupported signal USR1. [14/Jun/2006:09:22:00 :: 5452] Ignoring unsupported signal USR2. [14/Jun/2006:09:22:00 :: 5452] Ignoring unsupported signal HUP. [14/Jun/2006:09:22:00 :: 5452] Ignoring unsupported signal SIGTRAP. [14/Jun/2006:09:22:00 :: 5452] starting [14/Jun/2006:09:54:11 :: 3500] Ignoring unsupported signal USR1. [14/Jun/2006:09:54:11 :: 3500] Ignoring unsupported signal USR2. [14/Jun/2006:09:54:11 :: 3500] Ignoring unsupported signal HUP. [14/Jun/2006:09:54:11 :: 3500] Ignoring unsupported signal SIGTRAP. [14/Jun/2006:09:54:11 :: 3500] starting what I notice is that this crashlog stopped being updated at this time… after that the fcgi server never started again… when I try to run dispatch.fcgi by hand through ruby i get: c:/programfiler/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:18:in `re quire__': ./../config/environment.rb:63: syntax error (SyntaxError) from c:/programfiler/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require .rb:18:in `require’ from dispatch.fcgi:21 could someone help me? I restarted the apache server several times, reinstalled it, reinstalled ruby, rails, mod\_fcgi.c,mod\_ruby… what is the error? ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/2 "2006-06-15T14:25:26Z")
See my article on Apache + FCGI for Windows. You want to use static servers, not dynamic servers. [http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) Hopefully something there can help you. ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/3 "2006-06-15T17:26:11Z")
Brian H. wrote: > See my article on Apache + FCGI for Windows. You want to use static > servers, > not dynamic servers. > > [Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) > > Hopefully something there can help you. thanks for the help… but it didnt fix my problem… no matter what I do, i end up with the same problem. i have reinstalled the whole thing over again, and even made a new rails project. It worked fine until i started pasting the original files i have been working with… my next step is to paste file by file and check for errors. I’ll come back with my findings later. ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/4 "2006-06-15T17:31:52Z")
Hernan Lopez wrote: > Brian H. wrote: > > > See my article on Apache + FCGI for Windows. You want to use static > > servers, > > not dynamic servers. > > > > [Deployment Strategies for Rails on Windows servers | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) > > > > Hopefully something there can help you. > > thanks for the help… but it didnt fix my problem… no matter what I > do, i end up with the same problem. > > i have reinstalled the whole thing over again, and even made a new rails > project. > It worked fine until i started pasting the original files i have been > working with… > my next step is to paste file by file and check for errors. I’ll come > back with my findings later. by the way I forgot to comment. My errorlog now shows this using static server: [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal – Restarting the server. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Child 2948: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) mod\_fastcgi/2.4.2 configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Server built: Oct 9 2005 19:16:56 [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4140 [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] Child 4140: Child process is running [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized [Thu Jun 15 17:29:35 2006] [crit] (OS 3)Systemet finner ikke angitt bane. : FastCGI: can’t start server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi”: spawn\_fs\_process() failed [Thu Jun 15 17:29:36 2006] [notice] Child 2948: Released the start mutex [Thu Jun 15 17:29:36 2006] [notice] Child 4140: Acquired the start mutex. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:36 2006] [notice] Child 4140: Starting 250 worker threads. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:37 2006] [notice] Child 2948: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:37 2006] [notice] Child 2948: All worker threads have exited. [Thu Jun 15 17:29:38 2006] [notice] Child 2948: Child process is exiting [Thu Jun 15 17:29:45 2006] [crit] (OS 3)Systemet finner ikke angitt bane. : FastCGI: can’t start server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi”: spawn\_fs\_process() failed [Thu Jun 15 17:29:55 2006] [crit] (OS 3)Systemet finner ikke angitt bane. : FastCGI: can’t start server “C:/Website/pagina/public/dispatch.fcgi”: spawn\_fs\_process() failed ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/5 "2006-06-15T17:53:51Z")
Roland M. wrote: > If I were you, I would move to SCGI and forget FCGI and its numerous > config issues. > > Another quickfix would be using mongrel\_rails… Just proxy the requests > from apache. > > Could you post the error message in log/production.log or > log/development.log? > > Are you able to run webrick ? > > Roland First… im able to run webrick, but nothing loads, and it gets a timeout… the dev.log is only a long binary empty space!! about 5mb!! I think im going to go over to scgi, do you have a good easy tutorial for setting scgi with apache andr rails on windows? thanks… ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/6 "2006-06-15T17:35:23Z")
If I were you, I would move to SCGI and forget FCGI and its numerous config issues. Another quickfix would be using mongrel\_rails… Just proxy the requests from apache. Could you post the error message in log/production.log or log/development.log? Are you able to run webrick ? Roland ---
**Author:** ![hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hdlverde](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hdlverde)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-in-dispatch-fcgi/63452/7 "2006-06-15T18:06:07Z")
Herman: Again, see my articles, especially the one on using Mongrel behind Apache. There are several methods for deployment there. If your application is supporting a small number of users, you can use Mongrel and run it as a Windows service. [http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/](http://www.napcs.com/howto/rails/deploy/) However, if you want to use Apache with SCGI, I suggest checking out InstantRails.