Question

I hadn’t used my MacBook for a while to run some local Rails apps, but now they are all showing (apache) 404s. I believe I had updated to Lion and the newest Pref Pane since they last worked. I’m not sure where to start looking to debug. Any ideas?

I also did the following:

$ rvm use @global
$ gem update passenger
$ passenger-install-apache2-module

My /etc/apache2/httpd.conf contains the following at the end:

LoadModule passenger_module /Users/robs/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /Users/robs/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global/gems/passenger-3.0.11
PassengerRuby /Users/robs/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.2-p180@global/ruby

# Added by the Passenger preference pane
# Make sure to include the Passenger configuration (the LoadModule,
# PassengerRoot, and PassengerRuby directives) before this section.
<IfModule passenger_module>
  NameVirtualHost *:80
  <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName _default_
  </VirtualHost>
  Include /private/etc/apache2/passenger_pane_vhosts/*.conf
</IfModule>

PS. They work fine if I run $ rails s and go to http://localhost:3000.

Answer 1

1. Restart Apache and recheck 🙂
2. Ensure there’s not some master on/off switch in the Pref Pane that is off
3. kill the pref pane and these sections of your apache config and just set up a vhost manually as described here. Recheck
4. Switch to pow