ferret search in production

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Hi there,

after recently deploying my app, I have noticed that the search results are not being displayed...

When I look in my app, I also notice that the apps content (search criterea) is not being indexed, so I dont have an index folder being created.

I read on a google post that it may be that the ferret.yml server isn't started (or perhaps the content of this file are not right)

I haven't touched this file since development mode, so was wondering if anyone knew where i need to turn to work out what's what with this...

the default file (which must have been created at the time of installation is below:

production:   host: localhost   port: 9010   pid_file: log/ferret.pid   log_file: log/ferret_server.log   log_level: warn

can anyone help? I'm so close to having a fully working app! :slight_smile:

thanks

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Bit more info -

looking at the ferret log file it says this:

[user] DRb connection error: druby://localhost:9010 - #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)>

this tells me i've not configured something, but i'm still unsure how to resolve this...

Any help appreciated... Thanks again

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Is acts_as_ferret installed and running on your production server?

Colin

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Yes - it's installed: already installed: acts_as_ferret (svn://projects.jkraemer.net/ acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret). pass --force to reinstall

When I tried to start it: script/ferret_server -e production start

the server returned: -bash: script/ferret_server: Permission denied

Hmmm

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Yes - it's installed: already installed: acts_as_ferret (svn://projects.jkraemer.net/ acts_as_ferret/tags/stable/acts_as_ferret). pass --force to reinstall

When I tried to start it: script/ferret_server -e production start

the server returned: -bash: script/ferret_server: Permission denied

Script probably just not marked as executable. You could either chmod +x it or do ruby script/ferret_server

Fred

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thanks for that.. I will take a look.

Hopefully that will start it..so basically I run ruby script/ ferret_server from my app location on the hosts server?

Thanks again.

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Ah, according to the message I got back, it was already running.

I've stopped it and re-started it, but i'm still getting the same error....

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Hi, are you using mongrel server for your production? If yes then you must make sure that you start your ferret server before starting your mongrel or apache/nginx servers. also you can share the index folder across your all production deployment. one thing is important to remember that your index folder must have read/write permissions. I wrote a blog post on this, you can take a look if you want to at

let me know if it helps or not..

Craig Westmoreland wrote:

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Thanks Ashif,

I like your blog - it makes sense, however I'm not 100% sure where ''require(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../../../../config/ environment'))'' is meant to go in the server_manager.rb file.

CHeers

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got it working - Thank you!