Question

I am reading a book about “Ruby on Rails” and now I have to deploy my application using Apache and Passenger. Everything seems to be installed properly but when I have finally add the following code in the Apache config file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName depot.yourhost.com
   DocumentRoot /home/gotqn/Aptana Projects/depot/public/

   <Directory /home/gotqn/Aptana Projects/depot/public>
      AllowOverride all
      Options -MultiViews
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and try to restart the Apache:

$ sudo apachectl restart

I get the following error:

Syntax error on line 245 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

DocumentRoot takes one argument, Root directory of the document tree

Action ‘restart’ failed.

The Apache error log may have more information.

The line 245 refers to the following line:

DocumentRoot /home/gotqn/Aptana Projects/depot/public/

Any ideas what I have done wrong?

Answer 1

Spaces are not allowed in this line, just put the whole path in double quotes

DocumentRoot "/home/gotqn/Aptana Projects/depot/public/"