Question

i’m trying to get working an old rails 2.1 application configured with mongrel cluster.

passenger is correctly installed on my system (apache) with this configuration

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

RailsSpawnMethod smart
PassengerMaxPoolSize 1
PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp 1
PassengerPoolIdleTime 2000
RailsFrameworkSpawnerIdleTime 0
RailsAppSpawnerIdleTime 0

my project is located on

/var/sites/site

this is the apache configuration

<Virtualhost tagi:80>
  ServerName site.com
  ServerAlias www.site.com

  DocumentRoot /var/sites/site/current/

  #PassengerHighPerformance on
  ##PassengerMaxRequests 5000
  PassengerStatThrottleRate 5

  <Directory />
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/site-error.log
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/site-access.log combined
  ServerSignature Off
</Virtualhost>

With mongrel app boot correctly and work perfectly.
But with apache2 + passanger, the boot doesn’t work and i get default directory listing from apache.

this is the permissions of configs files

-rw-r----- 1 git web 2.7K 2009-11-11 11:34 boot.rb
-rw-r----- 1 git web  600 2009-11-11 13:51 database.yml
-rw-r----- 1 git web 1.7K 2009-11-11 11:34 deploy.rb
-rw-r----- 1 git web 3.9K 2009-11-11 14:04 environment.rb
drwxr-x--- 2 git web 4.0K 2009-11-11 11:34 environments
-rw-r----- 1 git web  754 2009-11-11 11:34 gmaps_api_key.yml
drwxr-x--- 2 git web 4.0K 2009-11-11 11:34 initializers
-rw-r----- 1 git web 1.8K 2009-11-11 11:34 routes.rb

i don’t have any idea.
apache logs are clear.

on my server i have already 5 application running with the same configuration.

any suggestion?

Answer 1

Point DocumentRoot at your apps public directory. I’m not sure what /var/sites/site/current/ is, but that’s probably not what you want.

Also you can try to explain to passenger more explicitly where you want it to mount the rails app by putting RailsBaseURI / in your vhost.

Give that a try and we can go from there.