Ruby: Problem using passenger

Question

Hi,

i first installed mod_ruby on my debian and afterwards ( after figuring out that it was too slow ) i wanted to chagne to passenger for my apache

Now i've got the problem, that the passenger is successfully loaded by the apache, but is not used, even though i configured everything correctly, like:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName xyz
        DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs/
        RailsBaseURI /rails
</VirtualHost>

Instad of the the passenger the cgi - module is used for displaying rails-apps... ( if i unload the cgi.conf and cgi-load from the "sites-enabled" folder, it's not working anymore... on the other hand it still works if i unload the passenger.load and passenger.conf files... )

So, how can i force the apache to use the passenger to display rails sites?

Answer 1

Assuming you have passenger installed and configured correctly with Apache ... Your DocumentRoot needs to point at the public directory of your rails app. Here's a working VirtualHost directive:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName myapp.local
  DocumentRoot "/path/to/myapp/public"
  RailsEnv development
  <directory "/path/to/myapp/public">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </directory>
</VirtualHost>

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Beforehand, also make sure that named virtual hosts are turned on:

NameVirtualHost *:80

And also that you actually have the passenger model configured correctly. For example:

LoadModule passenger_module /path/to/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /path/to/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5
PassengerRuby /path/to/bin/ruby

Answer 2

Did you reconfigure the relative_url_root in your rails application? For example, in config/environment.rb:

config.action_controller.relative_url_root = "/rails"