# Passenger (mod\_rails)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 13, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645 "2008-04-13T11:38:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmcervera)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645/1 "2008-04-13T11:38:43Z")

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I am trying to do some testing with mod\_rails.  
I think I have everything well configured, but when I try to get to my  
application I get an internal server error and this message in the error  
log:

[Sun Apr 13 11:23:14 2008] [alert] [client 127.0.1.1]  
/home/juanma/work/artpub/public/.htaccess: Option ExecCGI not allowed  
here

I am using ubuntu and I have no knowledge of apache.  
Can somebody help?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmcervera)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645/2 "2008-04-13T12:00:25Z")

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On 13 Apr 2008, at 11:38, Juanma C. wrote:

> I am using ubuntu and I have no knowledge of apache.  
> Can somebody help?

```
 <Directory "/var/www/railsroot" >
     Options FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride All
 </Directory>

```

Could help.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmcervera)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645/3 "2008-04-13T15:42:28Z")

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[http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#\_configuring\_passenger](http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_configuring_passenger)

Please check RailsAllowModRewrite directive and also read the section  
about conflicting modules.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Juanma C.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> apache.  
>   
> in the server configuration  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> >

–  
Cheers!

- Pratik  
[http://m.onkey.org](http://m.onkey.org)

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**Author:** ![jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmcervera)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645/4 "2008-04-13T12:27:12Z")

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Peter De Berdt wrote:

> ```
> <Directory "/var/www/railsroot" >
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride All
> </Directory>
> 
> ```
> 
> Could help.

Thank you Peter, but it doesn’t work form me.  
I have added the lines to the file in the available-sites directory of  
apache.

This is the file for the virtual host ([artpub.com](http://artpub.com))

 ServerName artpub.com DocumentRoot /home/juanma/work/artpub/public Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All 

I have not touched .htaccess

But now, I have this message in the error log

[Sun Apr 13 12:19:54 2008] [alert] [client 127.0.1.1]  
/home/juanma/work/artpub/public/.htaccess: Invalid command  
‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included  
in the server configuration

Thanks  
Juan M. Cervera

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**Author:** ![jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@jmcervera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmcervera)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-mod-rails/134645/5 "2008-05-01T10:27:37Z")

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On Apr 13, 11:38 am, Juanma C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Can somebody help?
> 
> Thanks

Delete your .htaccess.