I'm using Warbler to pack a Rails application into a WAR. I've deployed it to a JBoss server and it seems to works.
However, I'm getting the classic 500 error on Rails saying "We're sorry, but something went wrong.".
Usually, I'd take a look at logs/production.log to find out what's wrong, but since the project is WARed, I can't access it. The question is, where are the logs written when the Rails app gets warbled?
JRuby-Rack, the servlet container adapter that Warbler bundles, is set up by default to redirect Rails logs to the servlet container using the javax.servlet.ServletContext#log method. So exactly where the logs appear is server-specific. For Tomcat, they should be in catalina.out, for GlassFish, server.log.
If you still don't see error messages in the log files, there could be a bug somewhere along the way that is swallowing the error. Feel free to open a problem report for JRuby-Rack at http://kenai.com/jira/browse/JRUBY_RACK.
Although this question is pretty old and has been answered already, but I had been facing similar issue with Sinatra application which was warbled and deployed in Tomcat. The catalina.out (or tomcat logs folder) was not spitting out the logs at all. I finally found that the logs reside in the deployed application's WEB-INF folder itself.
For example
{TOMCAT_BASE}/webapps/{WEB_APPLICATION_PATH/WEB-INF/log/production.log
This had been a mystery to me for quite sometime.
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I have a working RoR app that's running on Ubuntu Server, served by Nginx and Unicorn. It's using a local postgres database. I also think it's running on Sinatra instead of rails, but I'm too new to RoR to be able to say for certain.
I am attempting to create a development copy of the app to do some testing with. I'm able to do so using the source code, bundle install, and then running webbrick on my desktop. However, my developer wants to duplicate the environment that the actual production copy is running in. I cloned the server hosting the application, but when I browse to the server I get the dreaded "We're sorry, but something went wrong" error.
Here's what I've checked so for. I looked at the log files in the app/logs directory, and those haven't been updated in the last 6 days, so I suspect nothing relevant will be in them. If I run "service nginx status", it appears to be started. The database is running, and I can access it through the psql interface. Again, I'm pretty much an RoR newb... I was hoping one of you kind folks might give me some advice. Where should I look next? I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just overlooking. Thanks in advance!
In your config > environments > production.rb file change the consider_all_requests_local variable to true.
config.consider_all_requests_local = true
FYI, unicorn was not starting along with NGINX. I was able to script unicorn to start on boot, and this fixed my problem.
I'm new to RoR.
I was able to install Rails and host it in Webrick (Sample App with "Welcome" controller) in my windows.
Now i have a Unix Weblogic Server along with a dedicated domian.
After exporting the .WAR file using Warbler, i accessed the Oracle Admin Console from where i deployed the .WAR file in the dedicated domain. I did all this for the Sample app with only the Welcome controller in it.
But even after deploying the WAR file, on accessing the Domain along with the Port Number (:9002) i ended up with 404 file not found error On looking at the server logs,there wasn't any records relating to any error. The Application must have been deployed properly. I assume that i must have missed out on some basic configurations in the routes.rb or similar files before deploying. Can anyone Guess what are all the possibilities and if possible can anyone help me by pointing to any tuts that cover the Steps to be carried out for configuration before deployment. do i need to install both JRuby and Rails inside the server before depolyment?
I can't really guess with Eror 404 only.
You can try mapping your rails app rack config to a different base_uri.
All you need to do is wrap the existing 'run' command in a map block
try doing this in your rails 'config.ru' file:
map '/mydepartment' do
run Myapp::Application
end
Now when you 'rails server' the app should be at localhost:3000/mydepartment .
Not sure if this will give you the desired outcome, but worth a try.
One more thing you also add this to your config/environments/production.rb and config/environments/development.rb (if on production mode):
config.action_controller.asset_path = proc { |path| "/abc#{path}" }
otherwise when you call your helpers such as stylesheet_link_tag in your views, they will generate links without the "/abc".
Also, find some guides you may refer for good support.
JRubyOnRailsOnBEAWeblogic.
Use JRuby with JMX for Oracle WebLogic Server 11g
Let me know if it is not resolved.
I'm been working on a rails 3.1 app with one other dev.
I've just pulled some of his recent changes, using git. And am now getting a 403 on any page I try to visit.
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
I'm running the site locally through passenger.
Oddly, when I start the app using rails' internal server. I can visit the site at http://0.0.0.0:3000
Looking at the changes in this recent pull, the only files have changed are some javascripts, some html the application.rb, routes.rb and a rake file.
How do I debug this, I'm a bit lost on where to start?
EDIT:
If I roll back to an earlier version the site works, through passenger. Which leads me to believe the problem is within the rails app, rather than an Apache error. Or it could be a permissions thing, can git change file permissions in this way?
IMHO this is a configuration error in Apache or wrong directory layouts. Make sure that the passenger_base_uri still points to the public folder inside your rails project and that there are no hidden .htaccess files which block access. Also verify that your sym-links are correct (if there are any). Also check your Apache error log.
Start by launching your console to see if rails and your app can be loaded.
In your application root directory type :
rails console
I have a Rails app that is running on a production server with Apache and Phusion Passenger. The app works fine locally when using Mongrel, but whenever I try to load a URL on the production server, it returns HTTP 500. I know the server is working properly, because I can get the static elements of the application (e.g., JavaScript files, stylesheets, images) just fine. I've also checked the Passenger status and it is loading the app (it must be, since the app's 500 Internal Server Error page is returned, not just the default Apache one). Also, when I load the app via script/console production and do something like app.get("/"), 500 is also returned.
The problem is that there is nothing in the log files to indicate the problem. production.log is empty. The Apache error logs show no problems with Apache, either. I'm stumped as to what's going on and I'm not sure how to diagnose the problem.
I know I may have been a bit vague, but can anyone give a suggestion on what the problem may be? Or at least a way I can go about diagnosing it?
The answer for this specific situation was a problem with my app. One of the model classes used a different database connection than the rest of the app. This database connection was not configured properly. I think the reason why nothing was written to the log files is that Rails bailed out without having any idea what to do.
Since it may be helpful for others to see how I diagnosed this problem, here was my thought process:
The issue couldn't be with Apache: no errors were written into the Apache log files.
The issue probably wasn't with Passenger: Passenger wasn't writing any errors to the Apache log file, and it seemed to be loading my app properly, since passenger-status showed it as loaded and it was display my app's 500 Internal Server Error page (not the default Apache one).
From there I surmised that it must be something broken in my app that happened very early on in the initialization phase, but wasn't something that caused the app to completely bail and throw an exception. I poked around in the Phusion Passenger Google Group, and ultimately stumbled upon this helpful post, which suggested that the error may be a database connectivity issue. Sure enough, removing this misconfigured database and all references to it made the app work!
Have you tried running the app locally using Passenger?
Try running the application locally on Mongrel in Production mode, to make sure that there's no weird issues with that particular environment. If that works, then you know that it's not an issue with your codebase. Since your static components are being served properly, that tells me that Apache is working fine. The only gear in the system left is Passenger. At this point, I would say it's an improperly configured Passenger. You should post up your Passenger config file, and ask the question on ServerFault.
A couple of things to try :
Have you gone though the following from the docs:
6.3.7. My Rails application’s log file is not being written to
There are a couple things that you
should be aware of:
By default, Phusion Passenger runs Rails applications in production
mode, so please be sure to check
production.log instead of
development.log. See RailsEnv for
configuration.
*
By default, Phusion Passenger runs Rails applications as the owner
of environment.rb. So the log file can
only be written to if that user has
write permission to the log file.
Please chmod or chown your log file
accordingly.
See User switching (security) for details.
If you’re using a RedHat-derived Linux
distribution (such as Fedora or
CentOS) then it is possible that
SELinux is interfering. RedHat’s
SELinux policy only allows Apache to
read/write directories that have the
httpd_sys_content_t security context.
Please run the following command to
give your Rails application folder
that context:
Have you checked your vhost or httpf.conf file ? Do you have any logging directives ?
Check the top level apache log file
Try setting PassengerLogLevel to 1 or 2 or 3, as shown here http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_passengerloglevel_lt_integer_gt
Do you have any rack apps installed ?
My suggestion would be to go right back to "Hello World" land and create the smallest possible Ruby example application and upload it to see if there is a problem with Passenger or Ruby on the server.
May be a silly suggestion but I suggest you start by increasing the logging levels on production while you are testing. Do this in config/environments/production.rb and use:
config.log_level = :debug
This should at least get you some sort of backtrace so you can start to find the problem.
If you still get nothing - you may find that you have an issue with something as simple as a missing gem/plugin on your production server. That sort of thing may well manifest as a "500" error and just not be very verbose for you.
Can you run the test suite on your production server?
I'm using Capistrano and have everything configured. The weird issue I have is that before, I got a nice Passenger error saying what was wrong (I hadn't fully uploaded my vendor/rails directory). After I do that, however, I'm now getting the general Rails We're sorry, but something went wrong 500 error instead of the Passenger error page. My production log shows nothing (only that the log was created). Apache logs show nothing. I don't get why I'm no longer seeing the Passenger error that tells me exactly what is wrong; fixing the error Passenger was complaining about shouldn't prevent it from getting there, should it?
Can anyone help me?
FYI I'm running several PHP-based applications on the same server, with the rails app set as a subdomain (e.g. railsapp.mydomain.com). The full stack is:
Fedora Core 8
Apache 2.2.9
MySQL 5.0.45
Rails 2.3.4
Passenger 2.2.5
You have two issues at hand:
You're log file isn't writable by Passenger. Passengers runs as Apache. So make sure the webserver has the correct rights to write to the log/ directory.
You are probably missing a gem, database or configuration file. Can you start a console session?
./script/console production