Having trouble deploying to production (Linode, Passenger)

You are not telling us , what your logs say, but IT would help to see the logging Output of the request for User, or any other site that isnt working as expected.

Is this what you mean? Here are the last few entries for the /srv/www/preziki/logs/error.log file:

[Thu Jul 12 04:45:56 2012] [error] [client 67.168.204.53] File does not exist: /srv/www/preziki/first_app/public/assets, referer: http://www.preziki.com/

[Thu Jul 12 04:45:59 2012] [error] [client 67.168.204.53] File does not exist: /srv/www/preziki/first_app/public/rails, referer: http://www.preziki.com/

[Thu Jul 12 04:46:04 2012] [error] [client 67.168.204.53] File does not exist: /srv/www/preziki/first_app/public/rails, referer: http://www.preziki.com/

The /srv/www/preziki/first_app/log/production.log is empty.

My assets folder is inside the first_app folder- is that error saying that the app is looking for it in a first_app/public folder?