Mac Phusion Passenger Pane not working

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I have a feeling that this is something centered around my apache/Passenger configurations but everything seems to check out.

Another off the hand problem I'm having, and might be a clue is w/ my Passenger Pane. I installed the Phusion Passenger Pane and every time I try to add an entry, I get this error:

"Your changes couldn’t be saved         See the Console log for details."

I wasn't sure exactly where the console log was for the Passenger Pane. I checked all Apache logs as well as the development.log of the project.

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It’s going to be in your normal system.log probably. As it says in the error, go to Applications > Utilities > Console and look through there.

However, I see very little reason to still use Passenger Pane today. If you’re talking about a development machine (which I assume it is), you might be better off looking into Pow (http://pow.cx/). If that is your production machine, then you shouldn’t be using Passenger Pane at all anyway.

Understand that hosting apps under Apache in development is like mounting an elephant to put a new battery in a flashlight. You don’t need the elephant, a simple chair or bench will do.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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Finally found out which console it was mentioning (utilities/console) and when I find the output I get this permissions related output:

Apr 21 10:54:18 clem-c-rock-2 System Preferences[52999]: Applying changes to Rails application: /Library/WebServer/Documents/ROR_tests/file_upload_progress1 Apr 21 10:54:18 clem-c-rock-2 System Preferences[52999]: Starting Rails application: /Library/WebServer/Documents/ROR_tests/file_upload_progress1 Apr 21 10:54:18 clem-c-rock-2 System Preferences[52999]: Saving configuration: /private/etc/apache2/passenger_pane_vhosts/file_upload_progress1.local.vhost.conf Apr 21 10:54:18 clem-c-rock-2 authexec[56414]: executing /usr/bin/ruby Apr 21 10:54:18 clem-c-rock-2 System Preferences[52999]: Error -60031 in AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges

clem_c_rock wrote:

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Finally found out which console it was mentioning (utilities/console) and when I find the output I get this permissions related output:

That sounds like the preference pane has an embeded helper app that it uses for things that require root access and that the permissions on that have gone wrong

Fred

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Found the solution:
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2009/02/11/switch-to-passenger-mod_rails-in-development-on-osx-in-less-than-7-minutes-or-your-money-back

The Fix: the fix is to make a symlink from where Ruby is installed to where the Passenger Pane expects it to be installed.

NOTE: Before you run the symlink command you should probably remove the Passenger preference pane, done by right-clicking on it and selecting Remove “Passenger” Preference Pane.

which ruby (to get your ruby path)

To make the symlink, run the command: ln -s /opt/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby.

Reinstall the Passenger Preference Pane and try adding a project.

clem_c_rock wrote: