Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service

Added by Nicolas Vandermeirsch over 12 years ago

environment:windows server 2003, mysql 5.1, redmine 2.0 with ruby 1.9.3 & rails 3.2.3

My company has been running an old Redmine 0.8 server for years and we are now moving to Redmine 2.0
The previous server was using mongrel_service but it looks like it's not an option anymore with Redmine 2.0 so we used the SRVANY.EXE method and managed to make it work with the following entry in the service/redmine registry

"Application"="C:\Ruby193\bin\rubyw.exe"
"AppDirectory"="C:\redmine-2.0"
"AppParameters"="C:\Ruby193\bin\rails server -e production"

Is there a better way to run Redmine 2.0 as a service on Windows?
Thanks

Replies (10)

RE: Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service - Added by Cassiano Monteiro over 12 years ago

What is wrong with mongrel on Redmine 2.0? Have you checked issue #7688 ?

RE: Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service - Added by Paul Engst over 12 years ago

I have the same problem at the moment. It seems that mongrel down't work wirh ruby 1.9.3. :-(

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongrel_(web_server)#Future_in_the_Rails_world
"The current release 1.2.5 is no longer able to install in Ruby versions higher than 1.9.2 which is recommendable for Rails3⁵, the fix is to use the much older 1.2.0-pre2⁶ release of Mongrel which isn't stable.

Mongrel however lives on in a new project called Thin⁷ which is a maintained project that uses the Mongrel parser."

The last two days I tried how I can use mongrel with Redmine 2.0 and Ruby 1.9.3. But I think I have to look for an alternative to mongrel.

RE: Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service - Added by Alex Guzun over 12 years ago

i have problem too
http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/30897?r=30905#message-30905

so what to use?
thanks

RE: Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service - Added by Paul Engst over 12 years ago

Details to the problem:

If I have installed mongrel according to the how to, I get a message for a missing msvcrt-ruby18.dll. I found I have to install mongrel in the pre release with "gem install mongrel --pre". After install that there are a lot of error messages like:

NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex.from_installed_gems is deprecated with no replacement. It
will be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
Gem::SourceIndex.from_installed_gems called from D:/Webserver/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems
/1.9.1/gems/gem_plugin-0.2.3/lib/gem_plugin.rb:109.

The service is created but seems not to work. At this point I stopped working with mongrel. Because it seems that mongrel is dead. Perhaps it ist possible to get this work, but I think it is better to switch to a living software.

So the next step for me ist to have a look to Thin, Unicorn or a direct integration for Ruby in Apache.

RE: Redmine 2.0 as a Windows service - Added by Paul Engst over 12 years ago

I think I have a solution!!!

The solution ist not to use Ruby 1.9.3-p194. With Ruby 1.9.3-p125 Thin works fine! Ther is a bug in p194: https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/issues/116

Thin needs eventmachine. eventmachine also has to be installed in the lates beta (gem install eventmachine --pre).

Perhaps I will write an wiki-article with my solution.