Apache+FastCGI working dir problem

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I have an standard Apache2+mod_fcgi+Rails layout. The application has a few of my own .rb files under /lib/ which I require in /config/environment.rb. When running through Mongrel/Webrick, I can do require 'lib/mylib.rb', but in the FastCGI environment (probably because the application's runtime working directory has moved from / to /public/) I all requires in /config/environment.rb fail unless I put a ../ in fron of each path.

I've tried googling on how to solve this issue but without results. The Apache2+mod_fcgi layout should be pretty common so I don't understand why this issue even came up. Should I even be requiring files in /config/environment.rb?

Might it be that because the working directory is /public/ instead of /, file uploads (using file_column) are also failing? Because right now they are. There might be a connection between those two problems.

Regards, Erik Allik

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I did a check on Apache access.log and error.log and Rails's own /log/ production.log. * access.log shows an incoming POST request when I save the model with uploaded file data. * error.log does not show anything. * /log/production.log logs all requests except for the one that is my file upload POST request

Could mod_fcgi be incorrectly directing multipart POST requests to the Rails FastCGI process?

Erik

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I solved the working dir problem by not require'ing 'lib/mylib' but simply 'mylib' instead. But I still need help with the file upload problem.

Erik

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Hey... I had the same problem with uploads... I try to solve it for the last 2 days, without result :frowning: Did you solve it???

Regards engineer