# Help with SCGI please :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 23, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100 "2006-02-23T03:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/1 "2006-02-23T03:02:27Z")
Hi, While learning Ruby and Rails, I decided I just as well learn Linux along the way… It’s been fun, but I’m stuck at one of those exasperating moments… I hope someone can help me 🙂 I installed Ruby 1.8.4 on Fedora Core 4, then Rails, then lighty, and then SCGI. I used yum to install lighty… and it already comes with mod\_scgi. I created my first application in /home/tango/ and I configured lighty using the instructions here: [http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi\_rails/lighttpd.html](http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi_rails/lighttpd.html) However, when I try to start lighty, I get the following error: (mod\_scgi.c.1050) missing key (short): scgi.server dispatch.scgi 0 port 2006-02-22 17:06:50: (server.c.834) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down. On lighttpd.conf I have the following relevant lines: server.document-root = “/home/tango/public/” server.error-handler-404 = “/dispatch.scgi” scgi.server = ( “dispatch.scgi” =\> (( “host” =\> “127.0.0.1”, “port” =\> 9999, “check-local” =\> “disable” )) ) What of all things could I possibly be doing wrong? Kind regards, Ivan V. ---
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/2 "2006-02-23T03:30:58Z")
Did you use: scgi\_ctrl config and scgi\_ctrl start as described in the Setup SCGI in Rails section of this page: [http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi\_rails/howto.html](http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi_rails/howto.html) Iván Vega R. wrote: > Hi, > > While learning Ruby and Rails, I decided I just as well learn Linux > along the way… It’s been fun, but I’m stuck at one of those > exasperating moments… I hope someone can help me 🙂 > > I installed Ruby 1.8.4 on Fedora Core 4, then Rails, then lighty, and > then SCGI. > > I used yum to install lighty… and it already comes with mod\_scgi. > > I created my first application in /home/tango/ and I configured lighty > using the instructions here: > > [http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi\_rails/lighttpd.html](http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/scgi_rails/lighttpd.html) > > However, when I try to start lighty, I get the following error: > > (mod\_scgi.c.1050) missing key (short): scgi.server dispatch.scgi 0 port > 2006-02-22 17:06:50: (server.c.834) Configuration of plugins failed. > Going down. > > On lighttpd.conf I have the following relevant lines: > > server.document-root = “/home/tango/public/” > server.error-handler-404 = “/dispatch.scgi” > scgi.server = ( “dispatch.scgi” =\> (( “host” =\> “127.0.0.1”, “port” =\> > 9999, “check-local” =\> “disable” )) ) > > What of all things could I possibly be doing wrong? > > Kind regards, > Ivan V. ---
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/3 "2006-02-23T03:44:39Z")
Hi Ivan I haven’t used lighty with scgi, but I am running it on core 4, and I couldn’t get it to run rails and fcgi using the version available from default core 4 repository… it was 1.2.something, which is several months old I think. So I resinstalled from the tarball on the lighty web site, and everything worked just fine. I don’t know what version you’re running, but ifit’s real old maybe an upgrade will help? Take care, Sean ---
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/4 "2006-02-23T03:38:34Z")
Yep, that’s what I did. Brad D. escribió: ---
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/5 "2006-02-23T07:13:18Z")
That looks to be about right, but maybe the SCGI syntax has changed for lighttpd. Take a look at these instructions from turbogears: [http://www.cleverdevil.org/computing/34/deploying-turbogears-with-lighttpd-a](http://www.cleverdevil.org/computing/34/deploying-turbogears-with-lighttpd-a) nd-scgi And see how he’s got the $HTTP[“url”] syntax? Try something like that just to see if you can get it to at least talk to the scgi. If you can then look at the scgi.server = block and see if some of those changes fix it. I may have to update the instructions soon if they have changed. Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. ---
**Author:** ![IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@IvSSSSn\_Vega\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/IvSSSSn_Vega_R)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-scgi-please/54100/6 "2006-02-23T15:13:29Z")
Hah! That works! Thanks a lot! Ivan V. Zed S. escribió:\> That looks to be about right, but maybe the SCGI syntax has changed for