On Tue, Dec 13, 2005, Preston Crawford wrote: > So Robby encouraged me (on my blog) not to give up on Rails. I'm close. > It's just way too frustrating to get a working environment going. As a > Java developer (and PHP and ASP) I'm used to stuff just working when it at > least comes to lightweight application servers. Yeah, I know WEBrick > works. But I've spent literally 3 days worth of effort trying to get > Apache+Rails+FastCGI working and I just flat can't get it to work. It's > ridiculous. I can't even run "ruby dispatch.fcgi" from the command line of > a Rails app that works great with WEBrick. That gives me a "500 Internal > Server Error". Ugh. WTH?
Do you have the fastcgi dev kit and fcgi gem installed? > I'm using CentOS 4.2, Rails 1.0 (as of a few minutes ago) and I'm just > trying to get it running the same way WEBrick does. In a way, this is more > proof of concept. If I can't get this working, I can't see how I'd ever, > in a million years, use this in a production environment. Apparently there > are wizards out there like Robby and others who can make this happen. I > can't. It doesn't take a wizard, just some luck :) > And no, I can't switch to lighttpd. I need PHP support (this is all on my > home box, but it's still needed) and don't want to have to recompile PHP > to get Rails to play nice with my web server. Back when I was doing php development, it only took me about 15 minutes to get PHP recompiled. Is it really such a big deal? Ultimately it's your call, but I think it'd be worth the effort. You could also try proxying lighttpd through apache. That's how I deploy most of my apps, it's just fine. Ben _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
