# Help: fastcgi connection refused **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 9, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094 "2008-09-09T07:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/1 "2008-09-09T07:50:33Z")
Greetings, I just started a new Rails app and it’s dead in the water. It appears to be something to do with my lighttpd server or fastcgi. The error is ‘500 - internal server error’. In lighttpd.access.log I get: 2008-09-08 22:40:21: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1743) connect failed: Connection refused on unix:/Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/tmp/sockets/fcgi.socket-0 2008-09-08 22:40:21: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2912) backend died; we’ll disable it for 5 seconds and send the request to another backend instead: reconnects: 0 load: 1 2008-09-08 22:40:24: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2471) unexpected end-of-file (perhaps the fastcgi process died): pid: 405 socket: unix:/Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/tmp/sockets/fcgi.socket-0 2008-09-08 22:40:24: (mod\_fastcgi.c.3234) child exited, pid: 405 status: 1 2008-09-08 22:40:24: (mod\_fastcgi.c.3281) response not received, request sent: 924 on socket: unix:/Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/tmp/sockets/fcgi.socket-0 for /dispatch.fcgi , closing connection I don’t know if it’s significant or not but when I stop the server I get this: Couldn’t find any pid file in ‘/Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/tmp/pids’ matching ‘dispatch.[0-9]\*.pid’ (also looked for processes matching “/Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/public/dispatch.fcgi”) When I try to start Webrick instead to see if that works, it doesn’t start and throws this error instead: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:278:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant ActiveRecord (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:467:in`const\_missing’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:479:in `const_missing' from /Users/William/Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb:5 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:502:in`load’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:502:in `load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:354:in`new\_constants\_in’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:502:in `load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/initializer.rb:475:in`load\_application\_initializers’ … 17 levels… from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/commands/server.rb:39 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from script/server:3 This is a bit out of my league. If anyone has any insight I would love it. Thanks, William ---
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/2 "2008-09-09T10:11:10Z")
On Sep 9, 6:50 am, William L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Greetings, > I just started a new Rails app and it’s dead in the > water. It appears to be something to do with my lighttpd server or > fastcgi. The error is ‘500 - internal server error’. Well the fact that I doesn’t work with webrick either rather suggests it’s not a fastcgi problem > When I try to start Webrick instead to see if that works, it doesn’t > start and throws this error instead: > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active\_support/de pendencies.rb:278:in > `load\_missing\_constant’: uninitialized constant ActiveRecord (NameError) Have you disable active\_record in environment.rb ? Fred ---
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/3 "2008-09-09T17:31:39Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Sep 9, 6:50�am, William L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > Have you disable active\_record in environment.rb ? > > Fred Yes I did. The first errors I was getting were about not being able to find Sqlite. Since this site wont have a database I disabled active\_record. Is that causing my problem? - William ---
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/4 "2008-09-09T18:30:54Z")
Fred THANK YOU. I never would have found that on my own and it’s good to learn something more about how Rails works. Thanks, William ---
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/5 "2008-09-09T18:15:20Z")
On 9 Sep 2008, at 16:31, William L. wrote: > Yes I did. The first errors I was getting were about not being able > to > find Sqlite. Since this site wont have a database I disabled > active\_record. Is that causing my problem? Yes it is, because you’ve still got initializers trying to set activerecord properties. just comment out those bits in /Users/William/ Projects/rails/hidden-spaces/config/initializers/new\_rails\_defaults Fred ---
**Author:** ![wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/71e660/32.png) [@wlefevre](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wlefevre)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-fastcgi-connection-refused/148094/6 "2008-09-10T12:15:41Z")
Hi, You can also face this error if your ruby path in public/dispatch.fcgi is wrong. George