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Asked: 2026-06-11T01:02:12+00:00

I’m developing a Rails app and am trying to configure the web server it’s

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I’m developing a Rails app and am trying to configure the web server it’s deployed on.
My problem is that the page doesn’t load.

In Apache’s error.log there are no errors and in my app’s log/production.log only the line(s) Connecting to database specified by database.yml appears.

I have no index.html in app’s public folder and the application works fine in the development environment.

I’m using an Amazon instance with Ubuntu 12.04 and I’ve installed ruby through RVM.
In my httpd.conf I have:

LoadModule passenger_module /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17
PassengerRuby /home/ubuntu/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby

Apache starts without errors.

Below there is my sites-available/default:

# other virtualhosts
#

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my_app.mydomain.com
    ServerAdmin mail@mail.com

    DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/public_html/my_app/current/public

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/public_html/my_app/current/public>
        Allow from all
        Options -MultiViews
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
</VirtualHost>

What should I do now to get passenger working?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I decided to reinstall Ruby and all the other stuff and moving to nginx.
    Finally now I have all working (both in ngnix and apache).
    This is what I’ve done, if someone cares:

    Ruby + Rails

    Install ruby + rails via RVM

    curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

    Load rvm in all opened shells

    source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

    Install gem

    gem install passenger

    apache

    Install apache and passenger module

    rvmsudo passenger-install-apache2-module

    Copy these lines to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

    LoadModule passenger_module /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17
PassengerRuby /home/ubuntu/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby

    nginx

    Install nginx and passenger module

    rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module

    Copy these lines to /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

    passenger_root /home/ubuntu/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17;
passenger_ruby /home/ubuntu/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby;

    Setup a script to allow you to control Nginx

    wget -O init-deb.sh http://library.linode.com/assets/660-init-deb.sh
sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults

    You can now control Nginx with this script

    sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

    Final setup with nodejs

    One of the other things you’ll want is Node.js. This will help you do the compiling of assets on deployments

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs
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