# Lighttpd not working with 0.14.3 for me **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 26, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235 "2005-11-26T03:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mannl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235/1 "2005-11-26T03:12:41Z")
I’m almost sure I’m doing something wrong here, but I don’t know what it is. Maybe someone has stumbled upon this and can help me. I can’t start lighttpd+fcgi for my rails app. It’s a 0.14.3 rails app. Weird thing is, an old 0.13.1 rails app works fine with lighttpd. Here’s the error I get: root@va2005:/var/www/myrailsapp/current# ./script/server =\> Booting lighttpd (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) =\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) =\> Call with -d to detach (requires absolute paths in config/ lighttpd.conf) =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options) 2005-11-26 02:02:17: (log.c.75) server started 2005-11-26 02:02:31: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: /usr/local/ lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/breakpoint.rb:25: warning: already initialized constant Version 2005-11-26 02:02:31: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:567:in `load': connection closed (DRb::DRbConnError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:629:in `recv\_reply’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:918:in `recv_reply' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1192:in `send\_message’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1083:in `method_missing' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1167:in `open’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1082:in `method_missing' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1100:in `with\_friend’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1081:in `method_missing' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ breakpoint.rb:386:in `activate\_drb’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ initializer.rb:169:in `load_environment' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ initializer.rb:150:in `load\_environment’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.2.3/ lib/active\_support/core\_ext/kernel.rb:27:in `silence_warnings' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ initializer.rb:147:in `load\_environment’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ initializer.rb:78:in `process' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/ initializer.rb:40:in `run’ from /var/www/myrailsapp/current/public/…/config/ environment.rb:10 from /var/www/myrailsapp/current/public/dispatch.fcgi:21 Apparently it’s that weird DRb error that’s killing it. Any ideas/pointers/hints? Been trying to get this running for a couple of hours now. Gonna rest now for a while… Thanks, Rob ---
**Author:** ![mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mannl)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235/2 "2005-11-26T12:20:30Z")
I don’t get this, I now get a slightly different error: root@va2005:/var/www/mysite/current# ./script/server =\> Booting lighttpd (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) =\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3001](http://0.0.0.0:3001) =\> Call with -d to detach (requires absolute paths in config/ lighttpd.conf) =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options) 2005-11-26 11:13:50: (log.c.75) server started (here I make a request to [http://www.mysite.com:3001](http://www.mysite.com:3001)) 2005-11-26 11:13:54: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: /usr/local/ lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/breakpoint.rb:25: warning: already initialized constant Version 2005-11-26 11:13:54: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: Lighttpd works with a 0.13.1 app though… Is this a bug? Any ideas? Any help is appreciated. This must have something to do with 0.14.3 Thanks, Rob ---
**Author:** ![mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mannl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235/3 "2005-11-27T16:06:44Z")
If anyone can please give me some pointers, I’d very much appreciate it. I reinstalled Debian according to this walkthrough: http:// brainspl.at/rails\_stack.html I deploy my Rails app with Switchtower. Running Webrick works fine. Lighttpd runs fine too but when i call a page, I get an empty page, plus either none or this error in lighttpd.error.log: 2005-11-27 14:50:12: (log.c.75) server started 2005-11-27 14:50:18: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: /usr/lib/ ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-0.14.3/lib/breakpoint.rb:25: warning: already initialized constant Version 2005-11-27 14:50:18: (mod\_fastcgi.c.2373) FastCGI-stderr: This is a 0.14.3 app. Another 0.13.1 app that I have on the same server WORKS with lighttpd - that’s what I find weird. Thanks, Rob ---
**Author:** ![mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mannl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235/4 "2005-11-27T20:30:22Z")
Just in case anyone’s interested (yeah right), it boils down to this: I had: config.action\_controller.session\_store = :active\_record\_store activated in my environment.rb, but issuing the command: ruby script/server lighttpd -e production does _not_ actually start lighttpd in production, but in development mode. That’s because lighttpd doesn’t listen to that command line argument, but instead listens to the fcgi environment variables from lighttpd.conf, and they were: “bin-environment” =\> ( “RAILS\_ENV” =\> “development” ) And since I was on my production machine, the development db details in database.yml were invalid of course… Puh, what an ugly problem. Gonna rest now, Rob ---
**Author:** ![mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mannl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mannl)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/lighttpd-not-working-with-0-14-3-for-me/50235/5 "2005-11-27T19:37:51Z")
It seems that there’s a problem with my Rails app, it has nothing to do with Rails 0.14.3 Should have noticed this earlier. This almost drove me to insanity Gonna track this down now. Sorry for the noise Cheers, Rob