# RoR still not working on SuSE 9.0 - incomplete headers recei **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216 "2006-01-19T23:38:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/1 "2006-01-19T23:38:50Z")
Hi, I’ve already posted my problem a few weeks ago on several forums, or lists. I still have the same problem: I have a SuSE 9.0 machine, Apache 2.x, ruby 1.8.4 I wanna get RoR working with fastCGI. I have installed different versions of fastCGI, have checked the permissions of the fcgi-ipc directory, reinstalled everything and it still doesn’t work. In the browser window I always get this error: Application error Rails application failed to start properly And this is log: fastcgi.crash.log: [16/Jan/2006:23:47:02 :: 977] starting [16/Jan/2006:23:47:03 :: 977] terminated gracefully apache.log: development.log is empty. This is my virtual host entry of apache: ServerName myHost AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi AddHandler cgi-script .cgi DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs/web4/html/rails/public SuexecUserGroup web4 ftponly FastCgiWrapper /usr/sbin/suexec2 RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L] ErrorDocument 500 " ## Application error Rails application failed to start properly" Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Allow from all Order allow,deny Please help me!! 🙂 I would be so happy, if I could use RoR on this server too. Webrick is working, when I try to run dispatch.fcgi I get: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:274: warning: already initialized constant KNOWN\_OPTIONS /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:279: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_KEY\_ATTRIBUTES /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:280: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_ROOT\_NAME /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:281: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_CONTENT\_KEY /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:282: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_XML\_DECLARATION /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:283: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_ANONYMOUS\_TAG /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:284: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_FORCE\_ARRAY /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/xml-simple-1.0.7/lib/xmlsimple.rb:285: warning: already initialized constant DEF\_INDENTATION Status: 500 Internal Server Error This should be ok, or not? Greetings Mike ---
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/2 "2006-01-20T03:28:08Z")
How does what you have done compare to the steps I went through to get RoR working with SUSE 9.2? [http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/163/59/](http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/163/59/) Is there any steps that I took that seem different to yours? From a look at your Apache config they both seem the same. Best of luck, David P.S. On the bright side at least fastcgi terminates gracefully nothing worse than an app that dies by falling flat on its face 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/3 "2006-01-20T05:13:23Z")
Hm. I’ve got Rails on Apache 2 + fastcgi with Ruby 1.8.2 and Suse 10.0. I know you’ve checked permissions, but it sure sounds like a permissions problem. You know, Apache gave me a warning not to put AddHandler inside of a VirtualHost. In fact, I don’t have “AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi” anywhere in my configs. What I _do_ have in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ mod\_fastcgi.conf is: FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi\_ipc/ FastCgiServer /srv/www/rails/my+app/current/public/dispatch.fcgi - initial-env RAILS\_ENV=production -processes 6 -idle-timeout 600 This starts up the FastCGI servers when Apache starts up. I haven’t tested this setup in production yet, but it seems just fine in dev, even with repeated SwitchTower deployments. What else? Have you tried without SuexecUserGroup and FastCgiWrapper? How about uninstalling the xml-simple gem? That may be killing your FastCGI processes right there. Sorry for the shot-gunned attempt at help. Good luck! Scott ---
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/4 "2006-01-20T17:11:01Z")
Every time I’ve seen the incomplete headers received it’s usually because the shebang declaration in dispatch.fcgi #!/usr/bin/ruby is incorrect. You probably have /usr/bin/ruby1.8 and need to create a symoblic link ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby. Either that or change the shebang declaration, but I think it’s best to use the symbolic link. (better for upgrading, etc…) ---
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/5 "2006-01-21T00:14:36Z")
You’re very welcome. Being the linux distro taster that I am, I have re-setup my apps a few times and know how frustrating not being able to find simple fixes like this are. ---
**Author:** ![mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@mgreenly](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mgreenly)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-still-not-working-on-suse-9-0-incomplete-headers-recei/63216/6 "2006-01-20T19:54:22Z")
Thanks!!! Thanks so much!!! This was the problem. I had /usr/bin/ruby, but in dispatch.fcgi I had ruby18. Thanks so much!!! Mike