How can I get my app running with InstantRails 1.0 on windows

Question

I'm trying to get my application to run on InstantRails 1.0. The application works fine using WeBrick, but when I try to run it using Apache in InstantRails, I get:

[Wed May 26 12:26:53 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn child process: c:/instantrails-1.0/rails_apps/guest/public/dispatch.cgi

In the apache error log, and my browser shows:

Application error
Rails application failed to start properly"

The cookbook application that comes with InstantRails works just fine.

My apache config looks like:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName guest.havelick.com
# handle all requests through SCGI
SCGIMount /dispatch.fcgi 127.0.0.1:9999
DocumentRoot ${path}/rails_apps/guest/public
<Directory ${path}/rails_apps/guest/public>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
</VirtualHost>

and the SCGI port matches that which I am using in the InstantRails config.

What can I do to troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

I figured this out. The default .htaccess file has:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]

Whereas InstantRails expects:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]