FastCGI issues

Rails
1

I am attempting to get Rails running on Windows with an Apache 2 server.
I seem to be having some trouble, and in spite of my best efforts to
find a solution, I could not.

I believe that I configured Apache correctly. I have included

EnableSendfile Off
EnableMMAP Off
Win32DisableAcceptEx

FastCgiConfig -maxClassProcesses 1 -maxProcesses 1 -minProcesses 1
-processSlack 1
-initial-env
PATH=“c:/ruby/bin;c:/windows/system32;c:/windows;C:/mysql/bin”
-initial-env RUBYOPT=rubygems

in httpd.conf per this article:

http://dema.ruby.com.br/articles/2005/08/23/taming-fastcgi-apache2-on-windows

As soon as I try to access any controller the harddrive starts grinding
and Apache’s error log is spammed with

[Sat Apr 08 07:00:30 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
“C:/ruby/rails/mata/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain running
for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed
off to 600 seconds

I have tried running dispatch.fcgi from the command line, as I’ve seen
it suggested, in order to attempt to debug the problem. I get the
following error:

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in
`const_
missing’: uninitialized constant RailsFCGIHandler (NameError)
from ./dispatch.fcgi:24

The shebang line for dispatch.fcgi is

#!c:/ruby/bin/ruby

which is the correct location of the interpreter.

I hope the problem is that I overlooked something trivial - and if
that’s the case, please feel free to bonk me over the head.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

Alex

2

Looks like you missing FCGI support in Rails, you need to have fcgi.so
as well as fcgi.rb in your Ruby librairies, and you also need a DLL
called libfcgi.dll in your path.

You may want to try my Rail Prod Win setup kit:

It has everything you need to run FCGI with Apache 2.2 on Windows, you
should be up and running in no time.

Gael

3

Should read:
Looks like you missing FCGI support in Ruby (not Rails)

4

Thank you! I’m going to try this out!