Passenger Apache setup

passenger apache setup

After successful installation of the Apache 2 module, follow the next set of step to configure Apache.

    Create the following two files in /etc/apache2/mods-available

    sudo touch /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load

paste following code in passenger.load file

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.2(your version)/gems
/passenger-3.0.2/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so

sudo touch /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

paste following code in passenger.conf file

PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.2/gems/passenger-3.0.2
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.9.2

2. Enable the modules by creating the following symbolic links in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled

$ ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.load
$ ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.conf

3.Now create a virtual host by adding the following to 000-default file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled.

<Directory /var/www/your_app>
         RailsBaseURI /your_app
         RailsEnv development
         AllowOverride all
         Options -MultiViews
         allow from all
</Directory>

    Now create soft link of your application, make sure you application must reside in /opt , To do you may create a separate folder for your application.

    i. $ sudo mkdir -p /opt/rails_apps

    ii. $ sudo cp -R /path/to/your_app/ /opt/rails_apps/

    iii. $ sudo ln -s /opt/rails_apps/your_app/public/ /var/www/your_app

    Then restart apache with the following command.

    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart





You will get an error message when you restart Apache if you've included, verbatim, the following:

AllowOverride all              # <-- relax Apache security settings
Options -MultiViews            # <-- MultiViews must be turned off

The error it spits out is:

user@my_server:~/your_site# sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart
Syntax error on line 11 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your_site:
Illegal override option #
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!
root@my_server:~/your_site#

The fix? Remove the comment lines that follow so it looks like this:

AllowOverride all
Options -MultiViews

Hope this helps!