# Problem with lighttpd **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 15, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528 "2006-06-15T22:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/1 "2006-06-15T22:33:09Z")
I have a problem with lighttpd on OSX. Everything builds fine (and webrick runs just fine) but lighttpd barfs: edward-kenworthys-computer:~/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk edward$ 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 =\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options) /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/…/config/boot.rb:15:in `require': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError) from /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/../config/boot.rb:15 from /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/../config/environment.rb:8:in `require’ from /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/…/config/environment.rb:8 from /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/dispatch.fcgi:21:in `require’ from /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/dispatch.fcgi:21 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1048) the fastcgi-backend /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/dispatch.fcgi failed to start: 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1052) child exited with status 1 /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/dispatch.fcgi 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1055) if you try do run PHP as FastCGI backend make sure you use the FastCGI enabled version. You can find out if it is the right one by executing ‘php -v’ and it should display ‘(cgi-fcgi)’ in the output, NOT (cgi) NOR (cli) For more information check [http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-program](http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-program) 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1060) If this is PHP on Gentoo add fastcgi to the USE flags 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (mod\_fastcgi.c.1356) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed. 2006-06-15 21:02:59: (server.c.834) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down. Exiting edward-kenworthys-computer:~/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk edward$ Anyone have any ideas? Edward ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/2 "2006-06-16T07:10:34Z")
looks like you need to install/update rubygems or there’s something wrong with your PATH, [http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems) /r/r On 6/15/06, Edward K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > /Users/edward/Development/Ruby/pricematic/trunk/public/…/config/boot.rb:15:in > `require’ > should display ‘(cgi-fcgi)’ in the output, NOT (cgi) NOR (cli) > Anyone have any ideas? > > Edward > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Rodney [http://www.pinupgeek.com](http://www.pinupgeek.com) [http://www.dutchrailers.org](http://www.dutchrailers.org) ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/3 "2006-06-16T20:36:22Z")
Nope rubygems works fine and require ‘rubygems’ in irb works fine as well. ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/4 "2006-06-17T12:20:03Z")
Could you post the config/lighttpd.conf and the public/dispatch.fcgi to help us help you. 🙂 On 6/16/06, Edward K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Nope rubygems works fine and require ‘rubygems’ in irb works fine as > well. > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/5 "2006-06-18T15:53:38Z")
Jón Borgþórsson wrote: > Could you post the config/lighttpd.conf and the public/dispatch.fcgi > to help us help you. 🙂 Of course. (I haven’t edited either). This is lighttpd.conf # Default configuration file for the lighttpd web server # Start using ./script/server lighttpd server.bind = “0.0.0.0” server.port = 3000 server.modules = ( “mod\_rewrite”, “mod\_accesslog”, “mod\_fastcgi”, “mod\_compress”, “mod\_expire” ) server.error-handler-404 = “/dispatch.fcgi” server.document-root = CWD + “/public/” server.errorlog = CWD + “/log/lighttpd.error.log” accesslog.filename = CWD + “/log/lighttpd.access.log” url.rewrite = ( “^/$” =\> “index.html”, “^([^.]+)$” =\> “$1.html” ) compress.filetype = ( “text/plain”, “text/html”, “text/css”, “text/javascript” ) compress.cache-dir = CWD + “/tmp/cache” expire.url = ( “/favicon.ico” =\> “access 3 days”, “/images/” =\> “access 3 days”, “/stylesheets/” =\> “access 3 days”, “/javascripts/” =\> “access 3 days” ) # Change \*-procs to 2 if you need to use Upload Progress or other tasks that # _need_ to execute a second request while the first is still pending. fastcgi.server = ( “.fcgi” =\> ( “localhost” =\> ( “min-procs” =\> 1, “max-procs” =\> 1, “socket” =\> CWD + “/tmp/sockets/fcgi.socket”, “bin-path” =\> CWD + “/public/dispatch.fcgi”, “bin-environment” =\> ( “RAILS\_ENV” =\> “development” ) ) ) ) mimetype.assign = ( “.css” =\> “text/css”, “.gif” =\> “image/gif”, “.htm” =\> “text/html”, “.html” =\> “text/html”, “.jpeg” =\> “image/jpeg”, “.jpg” =\> “image/jpeg”, “.js” =\> “text/javascript”, “.png” =\> “image/png”, “.swf” =\> “application/x-shockwave-flash”, “.txt” =\> “text/plain” ) # Making sure file uploads above 64k always work when using IE or Safari # For more information, see [http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/360](http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/360) $HTTP[“useragent”] =~ “^(._MSIE._)|(._AppleWebKit._)$” { server.max-keep-alive-requests = 0 } And this is dispatch.fcgi #!/usr/bin/ruby # # You may specify the path to the FastCGI crash log (a log of unhandled # exceptions which forced the FastCGI instance to exit, great for debugging) # and the number of requests to process before running garbage collection. # # By default, the FastCGI crash log is RAILS\_ROOT/log/fastcgi.crash.log # and the GC period is nil (turned off). A reasonable number of requests # could range from 10-100 depending on the memory footprint of your app. # # Example: # # Default log path, normal GC behavior. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! # # # Default log path, 50 requests between GC. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 50 # # # Custom log path, normal GC behavior. # RailsFCGIHandler.process! ‘/var/log/myapp\_fcgi\_crash.log’ # require File.dirname( **FILE** ) + “/…/config/environment” require ‘fcgi\_handler’ RailsFCGIHandler.process! TIA for your help. ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/6 "2006-06-19T06:18:25Z")
In the terminal. Write which ruby And that should give you the Ruby location. Use that in the dirst line of your dispatch.fcgi On 6/18/06, Edward K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > server.bind = “0.0.0.0” > > ``` > "/javascripts/" => "access 3 days" ) > > ``` > > “bin-environment” =\> ( “RAILS\_ENV” =\> “development” ) > “.png” =\> “image/png”, > And this is dispatch.fcgi > > # and the GC period is nil (turned off). A reasonable number of > > # # Custom log path, normal GC behavior. > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – ---
**Author:** ![countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@countbrass](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/countbrass)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-lighttpd/63528/7 "2006-06-19T09:58:50Z")
Jón Borgþórsson wrote: > In the terminal. Write > which ruby > > And that should give you the Ruby location. Use that in the dirst line > of your dispatch.fcgi Thank you! That’s fixed it.