Forbidden error on rails app with Passenger and Apache

Rails
1

I run a rails app at /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/ . The app
runs fine with WEBrick on localhost:3000. However, I am getting a
Forbidden error when accessing the app on Apache on port 80. I
suspect this is more of a problem with my Apache config than with
Rails or Passenger. The configs are below. Please help. Thanks.

I have Passenger installed.

The following is in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

Passenger

LoadModule passenger_module /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8/ext/
apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.8
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

=======

The following is the content of the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
default

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

<Directory “/home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public/”>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory “/usr/lib/cgi-bin”>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

alert, emerg.

LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

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passenger status:

sudo /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/passenger-status
----------- General information -----------
max = 6
count = 0
active = 0
inactive = 0
Waiting on global queue: 0

----------- Domains -----------

Apache log:

[Sun Jan 17 18:35:30 2010] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied:
access to / denied

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Vincent P [email protected] wrote:

Passenger

<VirtualHost *:80>
Order allow,deny

   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

Apache log:

[Sun Jan 17 18:35:30 2010] [error] [client ::1] (13)Permission denied:
access to / denied

You can try adding the following after the second Directory block:

RailsBaseURI /

Next, I would verify that ‘Allow from’ is correct. I have used the
following
without fail:

Allow from all

Good luck,

-Conrad

3

Learn by Doing wrote:

DocumentRoot /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

<Directory “/home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public/”>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

On the second Directory, you should have:

<Directory /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public//>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

You have quotes surrounding your directory which you can remove. You
should also add Indexes and MultiViews here as well. Just copy and
paste what I placed in there.

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

After this line place:

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

Besides not having any expiresheaders etc. placed in, everything else is
fine.

4

Correcting one syntax error:

<Directory /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

No second forward slash - apologies.

5

BTW, if it is relevant at all, every time I modify the config files, I
restart apache. I am running Apache 2.2.12 on Ubuntu 9.10. Thanks.

6

BTW, if it is relevant at all, every time I modified the config files,
I
did restart apache. But that did not help. I am running Apache
2.2.12 on Ubuntu 9.10. Thanks.

7

Hi all,

It starts working for some reason after I use “git clone local” instead
of
“scp” to create the vincentApp directory. However, the directory git
creates only gives write permission to root (must be a consequence of
gitosis). I had to chmod a+w to the log and tmp folder before the app
shows
through Apache. Is there a better way than to chmod every time I deploy
to
production?

Thanks.

8

Condrad and Alpha, Thank you for your help. I am still getting the
error. Below is the edited section of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
default :

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

<Directory /home/vincent/Documents/vincentApp/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

RailsBaseURI /

…

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

…

Thanks.

9

2010/1/19 Easebus [email protected]:

Hi all,

It starts working for some reason after I use “git clone local” instead of
“scp” to create the vincentApp directory. Â However, the directory git
creates only gives write permission to root (must be a consequence of
gitosis). Â I had to chmod a+w to the log and tmp folder before the app shows
through Apache. Â Is there a better way than to chmod every time I deploy to
production?

On another thread you said that you used sudo when doing the clone, if
so then that is why the permissions are root. You should not need to
use sudo, just
git clone path/to/file.git
provided you have access to the git file and permission to create the
folder at the destination.

Colin