Question

I am getting this issue.

 passenger-install-apache2-module

Already installed Apache2 and passenger gem

    /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/lib/phusion_passenger/platform_info/apache.rb:277:in `_unmemoized_apr_config_needed_for_building_apache_modules?': undefined local variable or method `test_exe_outdir' for PhusionPassenger::PlatformInfo:Module (NameError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/lib/phusion_passenger/platform_info.rb:92:in `apr_config_needed_for_building_apache_modules?'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:69:in `dependencies'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_installer.rb:166:in `check_dependencies'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:90:in `install!'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_installer.rb:63:in `start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.6/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:236
        from /usr/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:19:in `load'
        from /usr/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module:19

Answer 1

Here is the solution:–

1. Compile the passenger source code. You can download it from here

   To install Passenger from source code, extract the source tarball:

   tar xzvf passenger-X.X.X.tar.gz
   

   Then run the included installer:

   ./passenger-X.X.X/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
   

   passenger-install will notify about the missing dependencies. Install them

2. You may get an issue that ssl is not installed if you are using ruby 1.9.2. Try this:-

   cd to : /usr/local/src/ruby-1.9.2-p00/ext/openssl (or whatever)  
   sudo ruby extconf.rb
   make install 
   

3. run the previous command ie

    ./passenger-X.X.X/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module
   

and it will work like a charm. 🙂