Hello World works on Mongrel but not in Passenger (Error 500), and nothing in the logs?

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I'm sure this is something common I'm missing.

I have installed Rails on Ubuntu using the helpful information at Getting Started with Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides and RubyOnRails - Community Help Wiki

I'm just trying to get Hello World working before moving on to other things. I have deleted the public/index.html (which displays fine with Apache) and done the following: script/generate controller home index edit config/routes.rb and add the line map.root :controller => "home" above the default routes

Pretty simple.... so I got the Passenger error at first because root owned config/environment.rb so it is now owned by www-data.

Now, I get Error 500 no matter what I do.

Fire up Mongrel and go to http://blah.mydomain.com:3000/ and it works perfectly. Go to http://blah.mydomain.com/ and, Error 500 "We're sorry, but something went wrong."

I hope this is something simple with the Apache config I'm simply missing. I presume since the error shows up at all that my Passenger config is at least correct in part.

Anyone? Thanks, -Patrick

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I was suffering the same thing so:

I did this:

    first in httpd.conf file, after:      LoadModule passenger_module /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/ 1.8/gems/passenger-2.1.2/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so      PassengerRoot /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ passenger-2.1.2      PassengerRuby /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby

     RailsSpawnMethod conservative #This I wrote it, just because the user guide says that is necesary to do it, when works well in mongrel not in Passenger.

  Next inside apache2/conf/extra/httpd_vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName www.sitename.com.mx #Domain name to public       DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/sitename/public" #the place where where app is in filesystem --erase this comment because apache give an error.       RailsEnv development #Say to pasenger that our app is in development.

     </VirtualHost>

    It could be necesary check the path to ruby binary files ...

   I hope this help.

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Just have to say thank you for this post. I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been trying to learn ruby on rails and this has been something I am stuck on now for 2 days. :slight_smile: RAILS_ENV helped, but did not solve it for me yet.

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It is no good replying to a three year old thread saying that you have the problem too. Start a new thread and describe the problem you are seeing.

Colin