Redmine

Hi Nico,

I may be wrong but I think this is a misconfiguration of apaches rewrite module. Please post the content of your .htacess file.

-Martin

Take a look on HowTo_run_Redmine_with_a_Mongrel_cluster

Here is the .htaccess file content:

# General Apache options
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</IfModule>
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

# If you don't want Rails to look in certain directories,
# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won't rewrite certain requests
# 
# Example:
#   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.*
#   RewriteRule .* - [L]

# Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails
# By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow
# 
# For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one
#
# Example:
#   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
RewriteEngine On

# If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,
# then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.
#
# Example:
#   Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public
#   RewriteBase /myrailsapp

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

# In case Rails experiences terminal errors
# Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead
# 
# Example:
#   ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly" 

If you are using Apache, I would seriously consider using Phusion's Passenger.

No Mongrel's to deal with here.

We recently migrated our Redmine instance from a NGINX / Mongrel Cluster configuration to Passenger and have been very happy so far.

If you do try out passenger, you need to delete your "public/.htaccess" file or you will get no styles like you are seeing here.

So I downloaded and installed passenger with the command gem install passenger. Can you explain me the next steps to run Redmine?

Did you watch the RailsCast?

http://www.modrails.com/videos/passenger.mov

The instructions here should be enough to get you started. If not, let me know where you are getting stuck.

@all: Nico is using PLESK and I can't see why using Rails in FastCGI-mode with plesk should be a bad idea. It's slow and there are better (and more complex) solutions but fastcgi with PLESK works out-of-the-box :)

You should check your file permissions because I can't find an error in your .htaccess-file.

So I changed the file permissions to 777 but it didn't work. Do you have any other idea to solve this problem?

Jim Orton: Hi Jim it didn't work with Passenger, too. I see no design. Now, I would like to explain you my steps.

First I downloaded Passenger with the command "gem install passenger". Second I installed Passenger with "passenger-install-apache2-module". The next step was to set up loadmodule and the other paths. I create a new file named "mod_passenger.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.

# Configuration for mod_passenger to deploy ruby on rails applications
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby

Next, I restarted Apache and saw that Passenger was loaded. I think great and downloaded Redmine with the svn-command "svn export http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk redmine". I used the trunk version because I have installed Rails 2.1.

I copied all files in the "/srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects" folder and edit the "/config/database.yml" file with my settings. It means, I followed the instructions on the Redmine website "http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall".

The next step was to change the file permmissions and delete the .htaccess file in the public folder:

chown -R wwwrun:www *  (set new owner for every file and folder)
chmod -R 755 files log tmp

The last step was to create a new config file to set up a new virtual host. I create a new file named "redmine.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.

# This is the configuration file for Redmine installations

# Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de
<VirtualHost 87.106.80.25:80>
    ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80
    ServerAdmin "webmaster@nico-herbig.de" 
        DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public
</VirtualHost>

Now, I restarted apache again and saw no changes.

I hope this settings can help you to resolve my problem.

Thanks,
Nico

It appears to be a permission issue.

The below url should display your CSS file not give a "Access forbidden!" message:

http://projects.the-green-modeling.de/stylesheets/application.css

Try adding the "public" folder to your chmod statement.

chmod -R 755 public

It works ;-)

I changed the file permissions for the "public"-directory to 755 and modify my "redmine.conf"-file for Apache. Here is the new conf-file.

# Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de
<VirtualHost 87.106.80.25:80>
        ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80
        ServerAdmin "webmaster@nico-herbig.de" 
        DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public
        <Directory /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Thanks to all people that help me to solve this ugly problem.

I'm having the same issue, I changed the /var/www/redmine/public directory to 777, but it's still not showing the css.

I followed this pretty closely: http://mugunth.blogspot.com/2008/07/steps-to-deploy-redmine-application-in.html
but got to this point:

NameVirtualHost *

ServerName
ServerAlias

DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On

and didn't know what to do. In it he says something about installing it to etc/www, but there is no /etc/www directory.
What else can I show to see what's up? I can sign in and everything seems to be working okay in that manner.

Hi Matt,

Did you delete your "public/.htaccess" file? This would cause you to get no styles to render in your application through Passenger.

- Jim

I had read in this post that it might solve the problem. I can't FIND it :), that's the problem! Isn't it supposed to be right in redmine/public? I didn't see it using find in explorer(or what linux explorer is called) or using ls in terminal.

.htaccess is a hidden file.

From your terminal, you should be able to see it by doing a

ls -la public/

and delete with

rm public/.htaccess

Jim, you're awesome. Thanks for helping me find that, it's exactly what was wrong.

I am trying to setup Redmine with Passenger, Ubuntu 8.0.4.
Passenger is installed, Redmine is configured. It works in: https://myserver/redmine

In /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/.htaccess I have added:
RewriteBase /redmine

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/myserversite I have:

Alias /redmine /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName ..

SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.key

DocumentRoot /var/www
    SetEnv HTTPS 1
        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.trac.log
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.trac.log combined

<Directory /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/>
            SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
            Options +FollowSymLinks
            order allow,deny
            allow from All
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

OK all good. But now here you say I should delete .htaccess, I tried deleting it and remove the Alias command, but then trying at https://myserver/redmine-0.8/public
only lists the directory. It doesn't execute any scripts.

So: why do I need to delete .htaccess?
That is, what parts in it is it that is "bad"?
Also, do redmine need both cgi and passenger? well then if we remove .htaccess then I should add cgi execution etc to my site under the directory?

Would be very thankful for an explanation.
Best regards
Julien

Why delete .htaccess? Those .htaccess rules are only for using CGI or FCGI as a Rails server, both very outdated and not recommendable. If you have a real Rails server, as Mongrel or Passenger, you don't need CGI or FCGI. Actually you shouldn't run Passenger and FCGI together. Also, Passenger isn't compatible with custom rewrites.