# RoR on Apache not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 2, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290 "2006-06-02T10:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cristian_Baltatescu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290/1 "2006-06-02T10:01:28Z")
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 🙂 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](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” \ 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 🙂 bye ---
**Author:** ![Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cristian_Baltatescu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290/2 "2006-06-02T13:15:42Z")
I found that I had similar problems when my .htaccess duplicated stuff in my httpd.conf. ---
**Author:** ![Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cristian_Baltatescu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290/3 "2006-06-02T22:35:22Z")
Have a go with my Rails Prod Win setup kit, it does exactly what you want to do: > **[Rails Prod Machine for Win32](https://sourceforge.net/projects/rails-prod-win/)** > > Download Rails Prod Machine for Win32 for free. Set of software/tools/libraries pre-compiled for Microsoft Windows platforms (WinXP,Win2000,Server2003), to allow easy deployement of a Ruby on Rails production machine. Includes Apache web server,... 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 ---
**Author:** ![Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cristian_Baltatescu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290/4 "2006-06-03T01:15:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cristian\_Baltatescu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Cristian_Baltatescu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-on-apache-not-working/62290/5 "2006-06-02T22:54:09Z")
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