# Rforum installation at Site 5

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [May 16, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642 "2006-05-16T14:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/railsroad)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642/1 "2006-05-16T14:05:40Z")

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I followed the readme instructions, and I changed the paths is  
dispatch.fcgi and dispatch.rb to show Ruby in #!/usr/bin/ruby

My site still is not resolving.  
[http://www.spiritualityproject.com](http://www.spiritualityproject.com)

So, it seems that the .htaccess file is rewriting the root to show:  
[http://www.spiritualityproject.com/forum](http://www.spiritualityproject.com/forum)

There is a controller called forum, so I don’t understand why it would  
not be showing up.  
I validated that this .htaccess file was changing the root url by  
putting in different root controller names.

It may have something to do with the fact that there are not any  
forums or posts to display.

The installation readme suggested that I need to create a new user by  
navigating to:  
[http://www.spritualityproject.com/user/register](http://www.spritualityproject.com/user/register)

However, this gives me:  
The error was: “lost network connection”

So, I’m not sure what’s going on.

thanks,  
Bryan

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**Author:** ![railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/railsroad)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642/2 "2006-05-16T17:48:10Z")

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The application is crashing on startup causing the errors that you’re  
seeing.

Are there any additional gems that rForum requires?

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**Author:** ![railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/railsroad)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642/3 "2006-05-17T16:15:30Z")

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I’m wonder if it’s just not possible to install Rforum at [Site5.com](http://Site5.com)

I deleted the un–needed files lang files.

I changed the paths is dispatch.fcgi and dispatch.rb to show Ruby in  
#!/usr/bin/ruby

I’m still getting the same errors…  
â??lost network connectionâ? (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005)

How did you find the error you posted above?  
I’m not seeing any errors in the apache error log

My app log files ( /home/spiritua/rforum/trunk/log ) are not being  
updated either, so I can’t use that to diagnose the problem.

I tried to change  
.htaccess now to point to dispatch.cgi

I got an Application Error @ root  
[http://www.spiritualityproject.com](http://www.spiritualityproject.com)

This could be because there are no users or posts.  
When I go to:  
[http://www.spiritualityproject.com/user/register](http://www.spiritualityproject.com/user/register)

The same error.  
If this were really an application error, wouldn’t it be logging the  
errors in  
~/rforum/trunk/log

Any idea what this error is?  
[Tue May 16 15:44:23 2006] [error] [client 68.180.72.85] Premature end  
of script headers: /home/spiritua/public\_html/dispatch.cgi

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**Author:** ![railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/railsroad)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642/4 "2006-11-14T05:23:48Z")

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Bryan W. wrote:

> I’m wonder if it’s just not possible to install Rforum at [Site5.com](http://Site5.com)  
> it is. I have it close…

The Ferret plugin is tricky. 0.9.6 is the only one that seems to let the  
app load.  
Everything is great except that I had to add a route to make it not  
throw a “Forum not found” error with just the domainn inn the address  
bar.

but now… I get this garbage when i try to post a new tpic when  
loggged in as admin. I found another post here:  
[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/84738](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/84738)  
that said i needed to upgrade Ferret. But i can;t cause then rForum.

I am starting to think that rForum is not ready for release at all.

Has anyone noticed that if you put any special charicters in the search  
box it throws an error (without even a 505 page)?

Also it does not seem to run with edge rails but i di not fool around  
with that tpp much.  
An help would be appriciated regardinng the below error  
Thanks,

NoMethodError (undefined method `exists?' for {:term_vector=>:no, :index=>:yes, :store=>:no, :boost=>1.0}:Hash): /home/artofbel/gems/gems/ferret-0.9.6/lib/ferret/index/field_infos.rb:20:in `initialize’  
/vendor/plugins/acts\_as\_ferret/lib/class\_methods.rb:166:in  
`rebuild_index' /vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/class_methods.rb:230:in `create\_index\_instance’  
/vendor/plugins/acts\_as\_ferret/lib/class\_methods.rb:223:in  
`ferret_index' /vendor/plugins/acts_as_ferret/lib/instance_methods.rb:86:in `ferret\_create’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/callbacks.rb:344:in  
`callback' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:341:in `callback’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/callbacks.rb:266:in  
`create_without_timestamps' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/timestamp.rb:30:in `create’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1718:in  
`create_or_update_without_callbacks' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:253:in `create\_or\_update’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/base.rb:1392:in  
`save_without_validation' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:736:in `save\_without\_transactions’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/transactions.rb:126:in  
`save' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:51:in `transaction’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/transactions.rb:91:in  
`transaction' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:118:in `transaction’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/transactions.rb:126:in  
`save' /app/models/forum.rb:41:in `add\_post’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/connection\_adapters/abstract/database\_statements.rb:51:in  
`transaction' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:91:in `transaction’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.4/lib/active\_record/transactions.rb:118:in  
`transaction' /app/models/forum.rb:36:in `add\_post’  
/app/controllers/topic\_controller.rb:97:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:941:in `perform\_action\_without\_filters’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:368:in  
`perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/rescue.rb:82:in  
`perform_action' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:408:in `process\_without\_filters’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:377:in  
`process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in `process’  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in  
`dispatch’  
dispatch.cgi:10

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**Author:** ![railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@railsroad](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/railsroad)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rforum-installation-at-site-5/60642/5 "2006-11-14T05:53:28Z")

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Dinshaw G. wrote:  
in response to my self… it see,s the prooblem is Site5, not rForum…  
Works perfect on my mac.