Showing Directory Root When Launching Rails App Using Apache2 and Passenger
- by LightBe Corp
I have done the following in an attempt to host a Rails 3.2.3 application using Apache 2.2.21 and Passenger 3.0.13:
Installed gem Passenger
rvmsudo passenger-install-apache2-module
Added website info in /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Added line to /etc/hosts (not sure if this was needed or not; not mentioned in Passenger documentation
Uncommented out the line in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf to Include /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Restarted Apache
When I try to pull up my website the following displays:
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 PHP/5.3.10 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/3.0.13 Server at lightbesandbox2.com Port 443
Here is /etc/hosts entry for the website:
127.0.0.1 www.lightbesandbox2.com
Here is my /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf entry for the website:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.lightbesandbox2.com
ServerAlias lightbesandbox2.com
PassengerAppRoot /Users/server1/Sites/iktusnetlive_RoR/
DocumentRoot /Users/server1/Sites/iktusnetlive_RoR/public
<Directory /Users/server1/Sites/iktusnetlive_RoR/public>
AllowOverride all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I do rvmsudo passenger-status I get the following output:
----------- General information -----------
max = 6
count = 1
active = 0
inactive = 1
Waiting on global queue: 0
----------- Application groups -----------
/Users/server1/Sites/iktusnetlive_RoR/:
App root: /Users/server1/Sites/iktusnetlive_RoR/
* PID: 8140 Sessions: 0 Processed: 2 Uptime: 20m 51s
None of my assets are in the public folder in my Rails app. I have written an application using the template presented in Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial. The home page is in /app/views/static_pages/home.html.erb. I decided to copy an index.html file in the public folder to see if it would display. It displayed as I had hoped..
Is there a way to get Passenger to find my assets without me having to rewrite my application?
Any help would be appreciated.
Update 6/23/2012 10:00 am CDT GMT-6
I corrected the problems with my file and have successfully executed the rake assets:precompile command. I still get the index page as before. I have made no other changes. I did a passenger-status command and it is still loaded. Restarting Apache did nothing.
