# Problem on Dreamhost: engine for rails 1.1.6

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-on-dreamhost-engine-for-rails-1-1-6/91445>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-on-dreamhost-engine-for-rails-1-1-6/91445 "2007-04-09T10:39:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-on-dreamhost-engine-for-rails-1-1-6/91445/1 "2007-04-09T10:39:17Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to set up Substruct (shopping cart engine) on Dreamhost.  
I failed several times and tracked down to the problem area.

I can reproduce the problem with these steps:

1. install rails
2. change public/.htaccess for fcgi
3. change public/dispatch.fcgi for RailsFCGIHandler

At this step, I can execute public/dispatch.fcgi without error.

1. svn co [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel\_1-1-6](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-1-6) vendor/  
rails

Now…  
$public/dispatch.fcgi  
I get

* * *

Status: 500 Internal Server Error  
Content-Type: text/html

 We're sorry, but something went wrong body { background-color: #fff; color: #666; text- align: center; font-family: arial, sans-serif; } div.dialog { width: 25em; padding: 0 4em; margin: 4em auto 0 auto; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-right-color: #999; border-bottom-color: #999; } h1 { font-size: 100%; color: #f00; line-height: 1.5em; } 

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What’s wrong with that?

Thanks.

Sam

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**Author:** ![ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@ssk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ssk)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-on-dreamhost-engine-for-rails-1-1-6/91445/2 "2007-04-09T16:44:02Z")

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Two things. I presume there’s nothing being logged in the Rails log  
directory, right? Okay. Good. First, try firing up the old  
“script/console”  
and see if/what errors you get from that. Second, look at the Apache  
error  
logs [usually found in ~/logs/YOUR\_DOMAIN\_NAME/http/] Sometimes [but  
rarely!] there’s actually useful information in there. But usually the  
console will reveal the nasties breaking your code. Hope that helps.

RSL