RoR on Apache not working

Rails
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Hi
I’m a RoR newbie, in fact i’ve been using it for less than 24 hours, but
I’m not an internet/pc/apache/developement newbie so I expected this to
go much easier :slight_smile:
Ok, here it goes. I’ve been trying to get RoR working with apache both
on a RH server and after i didn;t managed there I tried on my machine,
an windows XP/Apache2 machine.
I don’t like running it from localhost, i want my app accessible from
the web and also i hate software that runs in command prompts that i
have to keep opened (WeBrick)
So, i followed many sets of explanations on how to do this, last one
beeing
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Fast+CGI+and+Apache2+for+Windows+without+VirtualHosts
It doesn’t work.
When i try to run the app in the browser it sais (this after beeing
incredibly slow to process my request):
Application error
Rails application failed to start properly

The error log in apache sais:
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:38 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 5108)
terminated with exit with status ‘1’
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:38 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 5116)
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:42 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 5116)
terminated with exit with status ‘1’
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:43 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” restarted (pid 5124)
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:47 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” (pid 5124)
terminated with exit with status ‘1’
[Fri Jun 02 10:54:47 2006] [warn] FastCGI: server
“D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi” has failed to remain
running for 30 seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been
backed off to 600 seconds

Actually the first 2 lines are from when apache starts.

The settings i’ve added in httpd.conf are:
Alias /clients “D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public”

<Directory “D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public”>
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
Options +ExecCGI
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny

FastCgiServer D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch.fcgi
-processes 1

And public/.htaccess

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

Sorry for the long message,i just thought of giving the whole info
before asking for help, so that you guys can identify any stupid mistake
i might have made.
Also, i’ve tried first without fastcgi, that didn;t work too, the error
i saw in browser was:
Routing Error

Recognition failed for “”

All this errors i’m getting when I try to access parts of my app that
work ok on webrick on port 3000.
Ok, thanks for your patience and i hope i can get ruby to work on apache
:slight_smile:

bye

2

I found that I had similar problems when my .htaccess duplicated stuff
in my httpd.conf.

3

Have a go with my Rails Prod Win setup kit, it does exactly what you
want to do:

It installs, Ruby + Rails + Apache and FCGI pre-setup for you.

You want to remove anything you have installed before installing this
though. Just keep the rails application, not rails itself but your
application.

hope this help

Gael

4

Kfir L. wrote:

Hi,
Edit the files:
D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch*

Check that first line of each file points to ruby as a windows path.
e.g: #!D:\ruby\bin\ruby

kfir

Erm… no
Ruby is installed on C, in C:\Ruby, Apache is also on C. Only htdocs is
on D because i’ve learnt not to keep anything valuable on the system
partition, in windows, this way i only loose 1 hour to wipe C and
reinstall.

I guess i’ll take on that advice to install the package that comes with
apache.
Thanks for all the answers.

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Hi,
Edit the files:
D:/work/#htdocs/ruby/clients/public/dispatch*

Check that first line of each file points to ruby as a windows path.
e.g: #!D:\ruby\bin\ruby

kfir