Passenger uses wrong URL to download PCRE.

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PCRE (required by Nginx) not installed, downloading it...
# wget -O /tmp/ubuntu-passenger-7717/pcre.tar.gz ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.gz
--2011-12-15 18:38:20--  ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.gz
           => `/tmp/ubuntu-passenger-7717/pcre.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk... 131.111.8.80
Connecting to ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk|131.111.8.80|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/software/programming/pcre ... done.
==> SIZE pcre-8.12.tar.gz ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR pcre-8.12.tar.gz ... 
No such file `pcre-8.12.tar.gz'.


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PCRE could not be downloaded

Nginx requires PCRE for its rewrite module, so this installer will attempt to
install Nginx without the rewrite module.

If you want to make use of Nginx's rewrite module, please install PCRE manually
by downloading it from:

  http://www.pcre.org/

I have the same problem. Is there a solution?

Yes, the solution is to manually install PCRE:

sudo aptitude install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev

There's a related discussion on the Passenger mailing list: PCRE version no longer on ftp site: breaks installer

Thank you very much, it helped me

Thanks, worked for me.

Thank you!

Thank you :)