# What is supposed to happen when you run dispatch.fcgi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 30, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247 "2006-01-30T14:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247/1 "2006-01-30T14:05:35Z")
I’ve seen a number of posts where someone says, “What happens if you just run dispatch.fcgi directly?” Every time I do it, I get a “500: internal server error” message. I was just curious if that’s what’s expected running it directly. I assume so, because my apps all work fine, but that’s always bugged me. Pat ---
**Author:** ![pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247/2 "2006-01-30T14:52:39Z")
Dispather is used to call the rails handler which in turn will look into the routes.rb & decide the controllers, action with what parameter, so when u call the dispatch.fcgi directly, their are no parameters so it will give a routing error & hence in deployment mode you will get page not found, if ur not getting that error chk the server log. ---
**Author:** ![pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247/3 "2006-01-30T15:14:34Z")
baggio:~/work/teore-1\_0 pergesu$ ./public/dispatch.fcgi Status: 500 Internal Server Error [30/Jan/2006:07:10:54 :: 6800] starting [30/Jan/2006:07:10:55 :: 6800] terminated gracefully Nothing in any other logs. ---
**Author:** ![pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247/4 "2006-01-30T18:47:15Z")
Since you’re not speaking to the dispatcher in the FCGI protocol, I think the 500 is normal. ---
**Author:** ![pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@pergesu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pergesu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-is-supposed-to-happen-when-you-run-dispatch-fcgi/53247/5 "2006-01-30T18:59:25Z")
On Jan 30, 2006, at 5:04 AM, Pat M. wrote: > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Pat- ``` 500 Internal Server error is the correct thing to see when you run ``` dispatch.fcgi from the cli. It is expecting to be spoken to in the fcgi protocol and when its not it will return a 500. Once and for all running dispatch.fcgi from the cli will return a 500 error even when your server is set up perfectly. Cheers- -Ezra Z. Yakima Herald-Republic WebMaster > **[yakimaherald.com | Yakima, Washington - We Tell Your Stories](https://www.yakimaherald.com/)** 509-577-7732 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid