Thanks everybody!
 Redmine is working correctly now. I am not certain what changed, as
my settings look like they did before, so I must have the magic
combination. Passenger is nowloaded via the gem instead of manually
before. For the sake of the next newbie, here's what I did:

starting with a 9.04 Ubuntu server, running Apache2.2 and Mysql and
Ruby in the usual way, with build tools installed, and root access:

install the Redmine app following their directions

apt-get install rubygems1.8
  run "gem install rubygems-update"
run "update_rubygems"   note:  this will clean out your gems
 run "gem install rails --VERSION=2.1.2"    required by Redmine app
 run "gem install mysql"
run  "gem install passenger"
run  "passenger-install-apache2-module"  follow instructions

restart Apache

####################

heres the relevant part of my default configuration file from apache2/
sites-available:


 LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
passenger-2.2.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        ServerName redmine.example.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public/
        PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5
        PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

        <Directory "/var/www/redmine/public/">
                Options Indexes +ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
        LogLevel debug

</VirtualHost>

#############

and heres the .htaccess file........

Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application
REDMINE  failed to start properly"

##############

and here's what gem says I have:

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.3.4, 2.1.2)
actionpack (2.3.4, 2.1.2)
activerecord (2.3.4, 2.1.2)
activeresource (2.3.4, 2.1.2)
activesupport (2.3.4, 2.1.2)
fastthread (1.0.7)
mysql (2.8.1)
passenger (2.2.5)
rack (1.0.0)
rails (2.1.2)
rake (0.8.7)
rubygems-update (1.3.5)

########################

and heres what dpkg says I have for ruby:

r...@dizzy:/var/www/redmine/public# dpkg -l |grep ruby
 libapache-ruby1.8
1.2.6-2
 libapache2-mod-ruby
1.2.6-2
 libbreakpoint-ruby1.8
0.5.1-2
 libbuilder-ruby1.8
2.1.2-1
 libcmdparse2-ruby1.8
2.0.2-2
 libdaemons-ruby1.8
1.0.10-2
 liberb-ruby
4.2
 libfcgi-ruby1.8
0.8.7-4.1
 liblog4r-ruby1.8
1.0.5-7
 libmmap-ruby1.8
0.2.6-3
 libmocha-ruby1.8
0.9.0-1
 libncurses-ruby1.8
1.1-3
 libopenssl-ruby1.8
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 libreadline-ruby1.8
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 libredcloth-ruby1.8                       3.0.99.0.svn.
20060519-1
 libruby
4.2
 libruby1.8
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 libsqlite3-ruby1.8
1.2.4-2
 libxml-simple-ruby
1.0.11-2
 rake
0.8.1-3
 rdoc
4.2
 ruby
4.2
 ruby1.8
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 ruby1.8-dev
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 ruby1.8-examples
1.8.7.72-3ubuntu0.1
 rubygems-doc
1.3.1-1
 rubygems1.8
1.3.1-1

####################

thanks again.





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