What's the easiest way to point domain.com to my RoR app? When I don't include the port, ie domain.com:3000 it lists the directory.
If you are using apache, you need to use a rails mod to get it working. The best one is Phusion Passenger. It is very easy to set up, follow their directions, set up your virtual host and you'll be on your way. Again, apache cannot serve rails apps without extra additions.
It sounds like you are getting the mongrel/webrick servers that you run with ruby script/server or rails server confused with apache. In production don't even bother with webrick or mongrel if you've got apache running. Install Passenger. Then its easy, just go to your conf file and add your VirtualHost.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /webapps/mysite/public
<Directory /webapps/mysite/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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I am attempting to get a Rails development environment up using a CentOS virtual machine. It will run Apache with Phusion Passenger, and I will access it from the host OS by entering the VM's LAN IP (eg 192.168.0.5).
I have been able to run Rails apps perfectly using WEBrick, and I have been able to serve static pages and PHP perfectly from Apache. But getting Passenger set up is proving to be a baffling nightmare of endless problems for me, and I would absolutely love some help from someone who knows what they're doing here.
So here's what I've done.
Booted into a fresh CentOS 6.3 machine. Using yum, installed httpd (Apache 2.2), sqlite-devel, all the other good stuff you need.
Installed RVM (to /home/vagrant/.rvm/), and Ruby 2.1.2, which I can confirm is working perfectly.
Installed Passenger with rvmsudo passenger-install-apache2-module.
Added the following to my httpd.conf.
.
LoadModule passenger_module /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/passenger-4.0.45/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
<IfModule module_passenger.c>
PassengerRoot /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/passenger-4.0.45
PassengerDefaultRuby /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/wrappers/ruby
</IfModule>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dangerzone/public
<Directory /var/www/html/dangerzone/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Finally, in /var/www/html, I executed rails new dangerzone to create the app.
Initially, trying to access my app gave me a Passenger error 'no JS runtime', which thrilled me because I'd spent 5 or so hours trying to get Passenger recognised at all. I installed Node-JS through Yum, and my current error is a 500, Internal server error.
I see nothing in /etc/httpd/logs/error_log.
I've followed the instructions on the RVM and Passenger websites to a letter. I've Googled this problem until I'd read the entire top 30 results. I've wiped the VM and started from scratch in case I did something wrong -- same problem. So I'm kind of baffled. Have I screwed up something really obvious?
I have a Rails Application which runs on "thin" Server on Windows Machine. I heard the best Server for Rails is Phusion Passenger,but unfortunately my Server runs on Windows Machine and it is not possible to install Phusion Passenger in windows.
Is it possible to deploy my Rails Application in Apache Server. If possible will it effect the performance of my Rails Application.
Any Help is appreciated.
You can use apache to reverse proxy requests to the thin server. The apache configuration directives look a little like this (you will probably need to change these)
DocumentRoot /path/to/rails/public
<Location /assets >
ProxyPass !
</Location>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
Replace 3000 with the port you set thin to run on.
I know rails is the ruby framework and apache is the server of rails.While what is Phusion Passenger used for? Is it a server or a deploy tool?
Now I am trying to deploy my rails app on the server,while I don`t know how to use Phusion Passenger and apache to get my app running ):
thanks in advance
Phusion Passenger is just an apache mod that needs to be activated in the virtual host your application is using, telling apache which version of Rails is used and other configurations like this one. So basically, Apache uses Passenger to run Ruby on Rails applications.
You have to read this in order to install Passenger : https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download (just scrool down a little to read the open source version documentation).
And this in order to set it up and run it for one of your applications : http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#_configuring_phusion_passenger So, yeah, a lot of text in here but you don't need to read everything fortunately.
Besides, when you install it, Passenger will tell you exactly what to write in your Virtual Host configuration and basically, there are only 2 lines of text. : )
Most of the time, if you have a virtual Host that looks like so :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.wsgiapp.com
DocumentRoot /webapps/wsgiapp/public
<Directory /webapps/wsgiapp/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Passenger will tell you to write something like this once installed :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.wsgiapp.com
DocumentRoot /webapps/wsgiapp/public
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
PassengerRoot /somewhere/passenger/x.x.x
<Directory /webapps/wsgiapp/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I'm trying to deploy my first rails app on a mediatemple (dv) and i'm not having any luck.
I'm trying to use phusion passenger so i went over to http://www.modrails.com/videos/passenger.mov and watched the tutorial on installing this. I did everything with no issues and I'm when i point to my ip, i see an apache page and not my rails app.
I noticed that on mediatemple, I had to create a vhosts.conf file and run a command to reconfigure my project to look at this vhosts.conf file. Reference - http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1621/Why+is+my+vhost+file+not+being+used+by+Apache%3F#dv_40 For the last step I did /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain xxx.xx.xx.xx instead of reconfigure all.
Here's what my vhosts.conf file looks like:
LoadModule passenger_module
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125/gems/passenger-3.0.11
PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p125/ruby
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName xxx.xx.xx.xx
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/myProject/httpdocs # <-- be sure to point
to 'public'!
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/myProject/httpdocs>
AllowOverride all # <-- relax Apache security settings
Options -MultiViews # <-- MultiViews must be turned off
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Anybody have any luck deploying a rails app on a mt (dv) that can shed some advice to a rails noob?
I've just go this done on my dv server so here is a quick walk through. I will assume that you are working with Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2, and running all of the commands below as root.
You also have the latest version of rake and passenger install on your server. If not, try:
gem update --system
gem install rake
gem install passenger
Next step is to login to your MediaTemple admin panel. Click on the Admin button (not the Plesk one) for the domain you are interested and choose "Root Access and Developer Tools" option. Install the developer tools (this will take about 10mins).
Once that's done, ssh into your server and do the following:
passenger-install-apache2-module
There is a pretty good guided installation so I won't go into details here. You may need to install some additional dependencies here via yum so check the output of this script carefully.
Once that's out of the way, go and edit your httpd.conf file. This is saved under /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. You will want to add the following lines to the end of it (please note the paths may vary as I am using rvm to manage my ruby installations and gemsets).
# Passenger Module for Apache (For Rails apps)
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125#rails32/gems/passenger-3.0.11/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125#rails32/gems/passenger-3.0.11
PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p125#rails32/ruby
PassengerDefaultUser root
At this point you should be ready to create a new rails app so remove everything from your httpdocs folder and issue the following command while logged in as the domain user (not root!)
rails new /path/to/httpdocs
Edit your vhost.conf file (or create a new one) in /var/www/vhosts/www.domain.com/conf (you will need to do this as root).
ServerName domainname.com
ServerAlias domainname.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/domainname.com/httpdocs/public
<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/domainname.com/httpdocs/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
RailsEnv development
RailsBaseURI /
And finally, issue
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain xxx.xx.xx.xx
And restart apache
/usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart
That should be it!
This link really helped me with the whole thing: http://www.twohard.com/blog/setting-rails-passenger-mediatemple-dv35-servers
I have just restarted my apache server which is running ruby on rails. Now it isn't serving any web pages because I think that some of the Rails related services are not working.
Does anyone know how to sort this out? Any help greatly appreciated.
More info: error says "Ruby on Rails application could not be started" with Phusion Passenger on the front page.
The application was working before the restart and I have changed some javascript on one of the ruby generated html pages. No major config changes.
Are you sure you have it setup properly? If it only started failing after a restart, chances are you made a bad change to your config. Here's a sample configuration (/etc/apache2/sites-available/site):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.site.com
DocumentRoot /var/rails/site/public
<Directory /var/rails/site/public>
AllowOverride all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Make sure apache has access to your app's folder. Usually, apache runs as www-data.
Guys - thanks for all of the feedback. You don't need to restart apache Web server , you just need to do following steps to restart passenger
cd /home/veriqual/r2/
touch tmp/restart.txt
Hope this helps people.