Sorry to spam a personal help message, but I’m tearing my hair out here.
I’ve previously done all my development with webbrick and deployed on
TextDrive where all the hard work was pretty much done for me. Today,
however, I need to deploy on one of our servers.
I’ve got Apache2 and SCGI installed, finally, and the app is running.
It correctly serves up content from the controllers. The problem is
that requests for the static files (/images/, /stylesheets/, etc)
aren’t working. If I try to go to http://127.0.0.1/stylesheets/ I get
the following:
Routing Error
Recognition failed for “/stylesheets/”
Again, this works fine under webbrick, so I would think it is an Apache
config problem. However, the error message itself looks like its coming
from the Rails router, implying a problem with my routes config. Is
there something I need to tell SCGI, Rails, or Apache to help find my
public folder? (I set the document root in the Apache http.conf)
I’m not familiar with scgi yet but i solved it as follows. My railsapp
‘root’
is one level higher then my apache docroot and have symlinks as shown
below:
In the apache2 conf you add the “FollowSymLinks” as shown here.
DocumentRoot /home/…/htdocs
<Directory /home/.../htdocs>
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
</Directory>
There can be a security ‘issue’, when people have shell access to your
system.
(I’m running vhosts in a chrooted env). If so, they can create symlinks
to
anywhere om your system, and are able access it. If not, there’s no
hazard.
Setting the config specs for scgi should do the trick. My next challenge
is
setting up scgi (thanx for the tip … :-).
Regards,
Gerard.
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:58, Jeff C. tried to type something
like:
that requests for the static files (/images/, /stylesheets/, etc)
public folder? (I set the document root in the Apache http.conf)
It correctly serves up content from the controllers. The problem is
there something I need to tell SCGI, Rails, or Apache to help find my
public folder? (I set the document root in the Apache http.conf)
Any advice? I appreciate it.
You need to add some directives to to Apache’s httpd.conf file to tell
it
not to send requests for static files through SCGI, but to serve those
up
directly. The exact specification depends on your application. Instant
Rails
has a page describing how to do this for Typo (you can probably adapt
this
for your own use):