# Rails on Pair networks **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 21, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-pair-networks/58409 "2006-04-21T10:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ian_Beveridge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-pair-networks/58409/1 "2006-04-21T10:06:27Z")
I’ve been looking to play about with Ruby on Rails for a while just to see what the fuss is about and now that I have, it looks very impressive. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to run on my shared web server which is run by the hosting company pair networks ([www.pair.com](http://www.pair.com)). I found the handy guide on the wiki that seemed tailor made for my problems and followed the steps… [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks) I can create an application, and I can view the “Welcome aboard” starting page. When I click on the ‘About your applicationâ??s environment’ link however, I get a red box with a 500 error in it rather than the nice yellow box full of server info that I was expecting. In following the wiki guide, I differed from the steps in the following ways… - Software versions. I used ruby 1.8.4, gems 0.8.11 and rails 1.1.2. - I didn’t set up a new domain. I assumed that everything would work fine if I placed the app in a subdirectory of an existing domain. I’m not quite sure why the wiki page asks you to set up a whole new domain. My app is installed here… [http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/](http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/) … and I haven’t messed with any URL rewriting stuff. - I didn’t fix the shebangs at the tops of the ruby scripts since they already had the correct path in them. Things I did/didn’t do are… - I didn’t set up my database info in config/database.yml. I presumed that the test app would work without that, and I’d only need to do that once I started coding something proper. - I chmod +x’d the dispatch cgi scripts. Initially there were log messages in development.log that indicated an error. I have deleted that log file though and it does not seem to be getting regenerated. I can’t remember what the error messages were in the log. I know that this is unhelpful. If anyone who understands web server configuration better than me can help, I’d very much appreciate that help. Thanks! - Ian ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ian_Beveridge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-pair-networks/58409/2 "2006-04-21T14:12:47Z")
Ian Beveridge wrote: > I’ve been looking to play about with Ruby on Rails for a while just to > see what the fuss is about and now that I have, it looks very > impressive. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to run on my shared web > server which is run by the hosting company pair networks ([www.pair.com](http://www.pair.com)). > > I found the handy guide on the wiki that seemed tailor made for my > problems and followed the steps… > > [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks) > > I can create an application, and I can view the “Welcome aboard” > starting page. When I click on the ‘About your applicationâ??s > environment’ link however, I get a red box with a 500 error in it rather > than the nice yellow box full of server info that I was expecting. > > In following the wiki guide, I differed from the steps in the following > ways… > > - Software versions. I used ruby 1.8.4, gems 0.8.11 and rails 1.1.2. > > - I didn’t set up a new domain. I assumed that everything would work > fine if I placed the app in a subdirectory of an existing domain. I’m > not quite sure why the wiki page asks you to set up a whole new domain. > My app is installed here… [http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/](http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/) > … and I haven’t messed with any URL rewriting stuff. > > - I didn’t fix the shebangs at the tops of the ruby scripts since they > already had the correct path in them. > > Things I did/didn’t do are… > > - I didn’t set up my database info in config/database.yml. I presumed > that the test app would work without that, and I’d only need to do that > once I started coding something proper. > > - I chmod +x’d the dispatch cgi scripts. > > Initially there were log messages in development.log that indicated an > error. I have deleted that log file though and it does not seem to be > getting regenerated. I can’t remember what the error messages were in > the log. I know that this is unhelpful. > > If anyone who understands web server configuration better than me can > help, I’d very much appreciate that help. Thanks! > > - Ian The ‘About your applictaion environment’ info only displays if it sees you connected locally so I don’t think you have any problems there… If you have you application in a subdirectory there are instructions in the .htaccess, it has the following example/instruction # If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive, # then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file. # # Example: # Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public # RewriteBase /myrailsapp In your case it should be RewriteBase /railstest/test/public/ after that try to navigate to some controller that doesn’t exist, for example [http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/foo](http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/foo) you should get a routing error… ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ian_Beveridge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-pair-networks/58409/3 "2006-07-14T12:19:21Z")
Hello, I followed the same wiki page, as well as some info at: > **[Luke Melia » Ruby on Rails on Pair.com, and on OS X](https://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2005/10/08/ruby-on-rails-on-paircom-and-on-os-x/)** > > The personal website of Luke Melia, a vegetarian beach volleyball playing, father, husband and software developer from New York City who attempts to live every day with passion. > **[Koalan & Surikaten](http://creativi.st/blog/articles/2005/06/10/railing-in-subdirectories)** > > Koalan & Surikaten Everything seems to be fine on my installation: ruby --version on command line gives 1.8.4 and points to my self-compiled installation at #!/usr/home/\/bin/ruby I can use irb I can “talk” to the Rails installation via script/console (although it’s killed after a few seconds of inactivity, but that’s normal) The test page shows up nicely. However, any request that goes via dispatch.cgi fails on an error 500. After a lot of testing, it seems that the self-compiled version doesn’t work as cgi, even though it does everything on command line (via ssh). So a simple test script (outside the rails directory): #!/usr/local/bin/ruby puts “lala” works fine, but #!/usr/home/\/bin/ruby puts “lala” gives an error 500… Where should I be looking at? What additional tests can I perform to find the cause? Regards, Pascal Van Hecke > **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://pascal.vanhecke.info)** > > The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Ian\_Beveridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ian_Beveridge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-on-pair-networks/58409/4 "2006-07-14T12:22:31Z")
> I followed the same wiki page Sorry, forgot to quote for the sake of the e-mail readers, I meant the instructions wiki page at [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnPairNetworks) The entire thread is at [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/62962](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/62962) Regards, Pascal Van Hecke > **[Site not found · DreamHost](http://pascal.vanhecke.info)** > > The owner of this domain has not yet uploaded their website.