# Trouble Running my app **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271 "2007-02-21T01:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/1 "2007-02-21T01:13:29Z")
Im having trouble running my app ☹ I get the error message application error rails failed to start properly. So not being a total idiot(I may regret saying that) i checked the logs and there was a problem in the server log only. It stated premature end to headers for dispatch.cgi I then tried to run the dispatch.cgi from a terminal expecting to see error 500 but instead i get this: matt@as public]# ./dispatch.cgi Status: 400 Bad Request /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.0/lib/active\_support/ dependencies.rb:405:in `to_constant_name': Anonymous modules have no name to be referenced by (ArgumentError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.0/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:215:in`qualified\_name\_for’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.0/lib/ active\_support/dependencies.rb:477:in `const_missing' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.1/lib/dispatcher.rb:117:in`reset\_after\_dispatch’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.1/lib/dispatcher.rb:51:in `dispatch’ from ./dispatch.cgi:10 Which means nothing to me and google isn’t bringing anything up ☹ I have tried to reinstall rails and also updated gems and again no luck:( Any clues at all would be most helpful Cheers in advance Matt ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/2 "2007-02-21T10:15:08Z")
Has nobody any ideas how I should go about solving this? Its really annoying me now:( ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/3 "2007-02-21T15:24:43Z")
Please im going insane. if there is anymore information that is required please dont hesitate to ask I will provide it. I just cant see the problem and my efforts with google have been exhausted. Matt ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/4 "2007-02-21T16:02:49Z")
Hi Matt, Try the rails-deploy list with this question. It looks more like an infrastructure question. Can you start any Rails app? If you haven’t tried it, just create a small table, then scaffold a model / controller on it and work up from there. Sorry I can’t be more help. Bill ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/5 "2007-02-21T16:12:51Z")
Cheers Bill didn’t know such a place existed thanks. Incidently I can get the scaffold working etc, and also can run the webrick server too. Just can’t run the main apache way. Thanks again ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/86271/6 "2007-02-21T16:27:54Z")
On 21-Feb-07, at 10:12 AM, Matt wrote: > On 21 Feb, 15:00, “Bill W.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Bill as Bill said, try simple things first Matt. build a new project, and serve that from apache. If that doesn’t work, and it serves from webrick, then you’ve got an apache config problem - which might include file permissions, etc. If it does, then you’re likely dealing with an old (pre 1.2) project? did you run “rake rails:update” - does your environment.rb set a specific rails version to run? narrowing down your scope of concerns, will help you post info that can help us help you. The deploy list has a bunch of crazy-deploy-fu people (who are likely here as well), but the signal-to-noise ratio is higher there. Jodi