Question

I’m trying to use setup the rails application on apache2 using the virtual server method, which is where I think my problems are coming from. I tried the standalone passenger install (after spending yesterday afternoon trying to make apache work) and that worked just fine, but I’d like to use apache.

Apache error log shows:

[Thu Jan 26 22:36:18 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Thu Jan 26 22:36:20 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu) Phusion_Passenger/3.0.11 configured -- resuming normal operations
cache: [GET /videos] miss

The sigterm is me restarting apache. The cache miss is me trying to view the model’s page.

The virtual host setup

    <VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot /home/dave/prodspace/river/public
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /home/dave/prodspace/river/public/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

    </VirtualHost>

The folder that contains everything is /home/dave/prodspace/river, I have set group permissions to www-data for the river/public folder. I have enabled the site and restarted apache via
sudo a2ensite river
sudo service apache2 restart

System specs are:
ruby related things installed using rvm
ruby 1.9.2p290
passenger 3.0.11
rails 3.2.0
apache 2.2 (installed through apt-get packages)
ubuntu 11.10 (x86 server edition)

Any help is always appreciated…

Answer 1

The production database wasn’t set up. The fix ended up being running:

RAILS_ENV=production rake db:create db:schema:load