# Recognition failed for "/rails\_info/properties"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recognition-failed-for-rails-info-properties/56685>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 2, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recognition-failed-for-rails-info-properties/56685 "2006-04-02T22:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/delayedgreen)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recognition-failed-for-rails-info-properties/56685/1 "2006-04-02T22:29:11Z")

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Hello. I can’t figure out why I’m getting the following problem, or  
how to fix it.

I have Rails 1.1.0 installed on both OS X and Solaris, and in both new  
and old projects, and using either WEBrick or lighttpd, I get:

Recognition failed for “/rails\_info/properties”

when lining to it off the welcome to rails page. I get the following  
errors through the console:

ActionController::RoutingError (Recognition failed for  
“/rails\_info/properties”):  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/routing.rb:488:in  
`recognition_failed' /opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:478:in`recognize!’  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in  
`dispatch' /opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in`process\_request’  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:54:in  
`process!' /opt/csw/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:600:in`each\_cgi’  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi' /opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in`process!’  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/fcgi\_handler.rb:23:in  
`process!’  
/cow/moo/test/new/public/dispatch.fcgi:24

Rendering  
/opt/csw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/templates/rescues/layout.rhtml  
(404 Page Not Found)

Forunately, script/about works:

bash-3.00# ./script/about  
About your application’s environment  
Ruby version 1.8.4 (i386-solaris2.8)  
RubyGems version 0.8.11  
Rails version 1.1.0  
Active Record version 1.14.0  
Action Pack version 1.12.0  
Action Web Service version 1.1.0  
Action Mailer version 1.2.0  
Active Support version 1.3.0  
Application root /cow/moo/test/new  
Environment development  
Database adapter mysql

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**Author:** ![delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/delayedgreen)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recognition-failed-for-rails-info-properties/56685/2 "2006-04-03T02:11:29Z")

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Delayed Green wrote:

> I have Rails 1.1.0 installed on both OS X and Solaris, and in both new  
> and old projects, and using either WEBrick or lighttpd, I get:  
> …  
> Recognition failed for “/rails\_info/properties”  
> …  
> Forunately, script/about works:

Same problem on Linux with ruby-1.8.2 using latest edge rails, r4132.

For me, even script/about doesn’t work in r4132 unless I unfreeze back  
to rails 1.0.

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**Author:** ![delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8e7dd6/32.png) [@delayedgreen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/delayedgreen)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recognition-failed-for-rails-info-properties/56685/3 "2006-04-09T10:14:28Z")

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Well, I figured it out. The index just needs to link to  
/rails/info/properties instead of /rails\_info/properties. So, there was  
nothing actually wrong with my installation 😉