I’ve been looking to play about with Ruby on Rails for a while just to
see what the fuss is about and now that I have, it looks very
impressive. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to run on my shared web
server which is run by the hosting company pair networks (www.pair.com).
I found the handy guide on the wiki that seemed tailor made for my
problems and followed the steps…
I can create an application, and I can view the “Welcome aboard”
starting page. When I click on the ‘About your applicationâ??s
environment’ link however, I get a red box with a 500 error in it rather
than the nice yellow box full of server info that I was expecting.
In following the wiki guide, I differed from the steps in the following
ways…
Software versions. I used ruby 1.8.4, gems 0.8.11 and rails 1.1.2.
I didn’t set up a new domain. I assumed that everything would work
fine if I placed the app in a subdirectory of an existing domain. I’m
not quite sure why the wiki page asks you to set up a whole new domain.
My app is installed here… http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/
… and I haven’t messed with any URL rewriting stuff.
I didn’t fix the shebangs at the tops of the ruby scripts since they
already had the correct path in them.
Things I did/didn’t do are…
I didn’t set up my database info in config/database.yml. I presumed
that the test app would work without that, and I’d only need to do that
once I started coding something proper.
I chmod +x’d the dispatch cgi scripts.
Initially there were log messages in development.log that indicated an
error. I have deleted that log file though and it does not seem to be
getting regenerated. I can’t remember what the error messages were in
the log. I know that this is unhelpful.
If anyone who understands web server configuration better than me can
help, I’d very much appreciate that help. Thanks!
I’ve been looking to play about with Ruby on Rails for a while just to
see what the fuss is about and now that I have, it looks very
impressive. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to run on my shared web
server which is run by the hosting company pair networks (www.pair.com).
I found the handy guide on the wiki that seemed tailor made for my
problems and followed the steps…
I can create an application, and I can view the “Welcome aboard”
starting page. When I click on the ‘About your applicationâ??s
environment’ link however, I get a red box with a 500 error in it rather
than the nice yellow box full of server info that I was expecting.
In following the wiki guide, I differed from the steps in the following
ways…
Software versions. I used ruby 1.8.4, gems 0.8.11 and rails 1.1.2.
I didn’t set up a new domain. I assumed that everything would work
fine if I placed the app in a subdirectory of an existing domain. I’m
not quite sure why the wiki page asks you to set up a whole new domain.
My app is installed here… http://kupio.com/railstest/test/public/
… and I haven’t messed with any URL rewriting stuff.
I didn’t fix the shebangs at the tops of the ruby scripts since they
already had the correct path in them.
Things I did/didn’t do are…
I didn’t set up my database info in config/database.yml. I presumed
that the test app would work without that, and I’d only need to do that
once I started coding something proper.
I chmod +x’d the dispatch cgi scripts.
Initially there were log messages in development.log that indicated an
error. I have deleted that log file though and it does not seem to be
getting regenerated. I can’t remember what the error messages were in
the log. I know that this is unhelpful.
If anyone who understands web server configuration better than me can
help, I’d very much appreciate that help. Thanks!
Ian
The ‘About your applictaion environment’ info only displays if it sees
you connected locally so I don’t think you have any problems there…
If you have you application in a subdirectory there are instructions in
the .htaccess, it has the following example/instruction
If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,
then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.
Example:
Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public
RewriteBase /myrailsapp
In your case it should be
RewriteBase /railstest/test/public/
after that try to navigate to some controller that doesn’t exist, for
example
I followed the same wiki page, as well as some info at:
Everything seems to be fine on my installation:
ruby --version on command line gives 1.8.4 and points to my
self-compiled installation at #!/usr/home/<pair_user_name>/bin/ruby
I can use irb
I can “talk” to the Rails installation via script/console (although it’s
killed after a few seconds of inactivity, but that’s normal)
The test page shows up nicely.
However, any request that goes via dispatch.cgi fails on an error 500.
After a lot of testing, it seems that the self-compiled version doesn’t
work as cgi, even though it does everything on command line (via ssh).
So a simple test script (outside the rails directory):
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
puts “lala”
works fine, but
#!/usr/home/<pair_user_name>/bin/ruby
puts “lala”
gives an error 500…
Where should I be looking at?
What additional tests can I perform to find the cause?