Project

General

Profile

Forums » Help »

Redmine on Debian/Apache/Passenger in sub directory only shows directory index

Added by andy p almost 14 years ago

hi,

i'm new to ror/redmine. my aim is to install redmine to run in a sub directory served by apache on port 80 next to my php apps which run in another subdirectory.

i installed ruby, rubygems, rails, redmine w/mysql and more. the redmine installation came with a wizzard to collect some data like db credentials and to create a db user and a redmine db.

my problem is that when i open the browser, all i get is the index of /redmine:

..
404.html
500.html
dispatch.cgi
dispatch.fcgi
dispatch.rb
dispatch.rb.example
favicon.ico
help/
images/
javascripts/
stylesheets/
themes/

since i'm a newbe i'm left with guessing: to me it looks like passenger is not kicking in to start/parse the redmine code.

phpinfo confirms mod_passenger is being loaded. i followed the http://modrails.com/install.html and http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#deploying_rails_to_sub_uri and i stumbled across http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/15491

  • redmine resides in /usr/share/redmine
  • web root is /var/www
  • soft link /var/www/redmine -> /usr/share/redmine/public/

my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" 
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

    PassengerAppRoot /var/www/redmine
    RailsBaseURI /redmine
    <Directory /var/www/redmine>
        AllowOverride All
        Options -MultiViews +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>


Replies (6)

RE: Redmine on Debian/Apache/Passenger in sub directory only shows directory index - Added by andy p almost 14 years ago

yeah, i had a look. i didn't quite know where to put the additional lines from the first link so i put it at the end of the environment.rb:

Redmine::Utils::relative_url_root = "/redmine" 
ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/redmine" 
ActionController::Base.relative_url_root = "/redmine"

didn't help...

also the article talks about "restarting". how does that work, just restart apache or can a ruby app be "started"? cause i'm not sure if i've started anything yet. sorry for asking silly questions but i'm from the php world.

one other thing: the whole redmine code is owned by the www-data. is that correct?

and one more thing: am i right in thinking that i have a passenger problem right now and that i get an error if my config or installation is erroneous instead of the directory list?

RE: Redmine on Debian/Apache/Passenger in sub directory only shows directory index - Added by andy p almost 14 years ago

ok, i checked the error.log:

[Tue Mar 22 00:26:07 2011] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: The Passenger spawn server script, '/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/lib/phusion_passenger/passenger-spawn-server', does not exist. Please check whether the 'PassengerRoot' option is specified correctly.

in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.conf i have:

PassengerRoot /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
but there is no passenger-spawn-server in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/lib/phusion_passenger/ but in
  • /usr/lib/phusion_passenger/passenger-spawn-server
  • /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server

copy one of them over (tried both) passenger complains about a missing ApplicationPoolServerExecutable which is indeed not there but in /usr/lib/phusion_passenger. copying this one too finally brings up apache without the error. but when i access my redmine url i get a 500 (The spawn server has exited unexpectedly.)

any clues??

passenger-spawn-server missing - Added by andy p almost 14 years ago 

Ruby version              1.8.7 (i486-linux)
RubyGems version          1.3.7
Rack version              1.0
Rails version             2.3.5
Active Record version     2.3.5
Active Resource version   2.3.5
Action Mailer version     2.3.5
Active Support version    2.3.5
Application root          /usr/share/redmine-1.1
Environment               production
Database adapter          mysql
Database schema version   20101114115359

RE: Redmine on Debian/Apache/Passenger in sub directory only shows directory index - Added by andy p almost 14 years ago

nobody any clue? cmon just throw in some ideas?

is it normal that passenger spins up passenger-spawn-server?
can i somehow run redmine without it?
where is it supposed to live? /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/lib/phusion_passenger/ or /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.5/helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server
do i have to copy it? do i have to aktivate/configure something?
do i have the wrong version of any component?

pleeeeze...

RE: Redmine on Debian/Apache/Passenger in sub directory only shows directory index - Added by andy p almost 14 years ago

ok, i got one step further: i had two installations of passenger on my server and i loaded the wrong one :-/

    (1-6/6)