# Trouble running my app **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628 "2007-03-04T16:52:16Z")\ **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:** [March 4, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/1 "2007-03-04T16:52:16Z")
I tried posting this message earlier on the normal rails message board and was advised to post it on here. Never knew this forum existed but am glad to have found it. Anyways… 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, if you think more information would help please ask me for it im not entirely sure where to start. Im going to create a default app now and see how that goes. It may or may not work i will post shortly. 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:** [March 4, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/2 "2007-03-04T18:20:26Z")
I have just created a new app on the server yet it doesn’t work. I can see the welcome aboard page then when i try to navigate to the app say /public/admin i get no joy and it states the usual Application failed to start message. There is nothing in the server log either:( The development log looks fine though which is odd no probs in there. Any ideas? To get rails started I followed this tutorial off media temple because I have my server with them. ([http://kb.mediatemple.net/article.php](http://kb.mediatemple.net/article.php)? id=128) 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:** [March 4, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/3 "2007-03-04T20:45:39Z")
Beg pardon for asking, but is there a good reason why you use CGI, in the first place? Alex ---
**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:** [March 5, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/4 "2007-03-05T10:28:59Z")
Hey Alex thanks for replying, Im sorry im a bit new to rails and was only following the tutorial on Mediatemple who run my hosting. What would you recommend I use? Thanks again for helping 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:** [March 5, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/5 "2007-03-05T16:04:48Z")
Your tutorial is specific to your hosting provider. Not sure there’s anything that will help you outside of media temple. To learn rails get either get a copy of “Agile Web D. with Rails” ([http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/](http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/)) Or read this tutorial > **[Radar - O’Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/radar/)** > > Now, next, and beyond: Tracking need-to-know trends at the intersection of business and technology I think folks are either user lighttpd or mongrel these days vs. fastcgi. Jim ---
**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:** [March 5, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-running-my-app/87628/6 "2007-03-05T16:14:50Z")
Yeah thanks for the advice, I have been working on getting mongrel installed and can get it installed to work if I specify the port number in the address say [www.ghmcc.co.uk/admin/](http://www.ghmcc.co.uk/admin/) the test app works. The app works fine. However I am unable to get it working if i try to specify the domain without the port say [www.ghmcc.co.uk/public/addresses/admin](http://www.ghmcc.co.uk/public/addresses/admin). I think the old apache way of running the app is taking presedence over the mongrel. I think im getting closer but not really sure any further light on the matter would be very gratefully received. Thanks again, Matthew