# Mongrel not starting, missing environment Engineyard

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-not-starting-missing-environment-engineyard/193283>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 14, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-not-starting-missing-environment-engineyard/193283 "2010-08-14T18:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chris)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-not-starting-missing-environment-engineyard/193283/1 "2010-08-14T18:20:27Z")

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I am trying to deploy my app on Engineyard and I have not been able to  
get it working.

When I deploy through the UI everything goes through fine but I  
receive a nginx 404 error when I view in a browser. I am able to  
change the mongrel\_cluster to point to my app and then manually start  
the cluster. Although, the public directory is outside of my app and  
therefore all the images, js, and css files are not accessible but the  
site works for the most part.

The mongrel\_cluster file is in a config directory outside of my app  
and therefore the app environment files are not accessible.

I have seen a few posting around similar issues and they have been  
resolved but I haven’t really seen a solution. .

Any help would be great.

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**Author:** ![chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@chris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chris)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-not-starting-missing-environment-engineyard/193283/2 "2010-08-14T18:29:14Z")

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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Chris [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> The mongrel\_cluster file is in a config directory outside of my app  
> and therefore the app environment files are not accessible.
> 
> I have seen a few posting around similar issues and they have been  
> resolved but I haven’t really seen a solution. .
> 
> Any help would be great.

You are much more likely to get help in the Rails group than here, or  
directly from EngineYard or their support resources.

–  
Rick DeNatale

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