I have come across this problem too many times to mention. I''ll
assume you are running on UNIX. The consistent problems I have seen
have to do with file and directory permissions or the location of ruby.
What to try:
1. Check your dispatch.fcgi to make sure that you are pointing to the
proper ruby executable. Try "which ruby" at the command line and see
if the directory matches your dispatch.fcgi.
2. MOST LIKELY - Check your permissions. Usually it is the tmp
folder, but it maybe something in your public folder as well. An easy
test, but not something you want to use in production would be to
just do a "chmod -R 777 *" in the project directory run your
"apachectl graceful" to see if that is the problem then clean up from
there.
3. Make sure you have a production.log and development.log files with
appropriate permissions in your log directory which may help you
isolate the problem although usually you don''t get far enough to get
an actual log from rails when you get the dispatch errors.
Regards,
Chris Burnley
