# Setup rails on freebsd **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [May 7, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-rails-on-freebsd/103491 "2007-05-07T03:16:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rst)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-rails-on-freebsd/103491/1 "2007-05-07T03:16:35Z")
Hello, I’m migrating some ruby on rails sites from one server to a new one. (both freebsd 6.x) Rails was setup previously by someone else. I’ve already installed rubygem rails from ports, and I’m using the same httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf files from the old machine. when I transfer over the Ruby sites, all I get is a directory index. Can anybody suggest where I should start troubleshooting? Thanks Ray ---
**Author:** ![rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rst)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-rails-on-freebsd/103491/2 "2007-05-07T09:55:58Z")
Hi rst, On 5/7/07, rst [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > transfer over the Ruby sites, all I get is a directory index. > Can anybody suggest where I should start troubleshooting? Presumably in the log files. Ruby / Rails needs FastCGI (www/fcgi and www/mod\_fastcgi port) with Apache to run, so you might want to check out, if your new server has FastCGI support. I dropped FastCGI in favor of nginx / mongrel a long time ago on my FBSD boxes, but let me know if you run into trouble. Regards, András – András Tarsoly removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rst](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rst)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setup-rails-on-freebsd/103491/3 "2007-05-07T22:37:03Z")
On Monday 07 May 2007 1:54 am, András Tarsoly wrote: > Hi rst, > > On 5/7/07, rst [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > transfer over the Ruby sites, all I get is a directory index. > > Can anybody suggest where I should start troubleshooting? > > Presumably in the log files. Ruby / Rails needs FastCGI (www/fcgi and > www/mod\_fastcgi port) with Apache to run, so you might want to check out, > if your new server has FastCGI support. > Thank you for your suggestions. I found part of the problem. problem 1 fixed: document root was incorrect. mod\_fastcgi wasn’t installed, but it wasn’t installed on the old server either. The old server seems to be using mod\_fcgid. now, when I go to the URL, I get a 500 error instead of a list of files. I’ve included error log exceperts and a little other info below. Any suggestions on where to go from here? Thanks, Ray okay, from errorlogs [Mon May 07 13:22:19 2007] [warn] mod\_fcgid: stderr: DEPRECATION WARNING: model is deprecated and will be removed from Rails 2.0 See [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation) for details. (called from /usr/local/www/apache22/data/…/app/controllers/application.rb: 4) [Mon May 07 13:22:19 2007] [warn] mod\_fcgid: stderr: DEPRECATION WARNING: depend\_on is deprecated and will be removed from Rails 2.0 See [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation) for details. (called from model\_without\_deprecation at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/ action\_controller/d [Mon May 07 13:22:19 2007] [warn] mod\_fcgid: stderr: eprecated\_dependencies.rb:13) If I understand, this doesn’t give the cause of the 500 error, it just tells me “change your code” ( or don’t upgrade to rails 2.0) I installed mod\_fastcgi and now: from phpinfo (sorry, I use php, I don’t know Ruby) under apache modules I get …mod\_fcgid… mod\_fastcgi