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Terry Donaghe

2006-Jul-16 19:53 UTC

[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Hi all!

I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at dreamhost.  I
am
getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start properly"
error.  The
logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the
error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file) I see the
following for each of my attempts:

[Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
[Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
[Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
[Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a
problem withFCGI.  For some more background:

I have followed the instructions listed here:

http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost

This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my local box
through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied everything
properly and
set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various files as
shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755" to my
public directory
and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/ruby

I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:

killall -USR1 dispatch.fcgi

when I try that I get this message:

dispatch.fcgi: no process killed

In another thread someone suggested doing this:

ps aux | grep dispatch

Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m not
very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means that FCGI is not
running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested using
"touch" on
dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything either...

I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost and
elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.

I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m pretty
much
at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about.  Can
anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might help
me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.

Thanks!!
-- 
Terry (TAD) Donaghe
http://www.tadspot.com
http://www.rubynoob.com
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Ian Connor

2006-Jul-17 07:51 UTC

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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the debug
"puts"
from all the code. This will mess up the headers if the puts output goes to
the wrong place.

Does that help?

Ian.

On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe <terry.donaghe@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Hi all!
>
> I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at
dreamhost.  I am
> getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start properly"
error.  The
> logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the
> error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file) I see
the
> following for each of my attempts:
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a
problem
> with FCGI.  For some more background:
>
> I have followed the instructions listed here:
>
> http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
>
> This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
local box
> through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied everything
properly and
> set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various files as
> shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755" to
my public directory
> and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
>
> killall -USR1
> dispatch.fcgi
>
> when I try that I get this message:
>
> dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
>
> In another thread someone suggested doing this:
>
> ps aux | grep dispatch
>
> Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m
> not very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means that FCGI
is not
> running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested using
"touch" on
> dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything either...
>
> I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost
and
> elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
>
> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m
pretty
> much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about. 
Can
> anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might help
> me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
>
> Thanks!!
> --
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Ian Connor
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Al Evans

2006-Jul-17 12:09 UTC

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[Rails] Re: Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Terry Donaghe wrote:
> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m
pretty
> much
> at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about.  Can
> anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might 
> help
> me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
Does log/fastcgi.crash.log have anything in it? If so, there''s some 
problem in the application. If not, the dispatcher is never getting 
started.

--Al Evans

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Terry Donaghe

2006-Jul-17 13:28 UTC

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[Rails] Re: Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Hi Al,

There is no log/fastcgi.crash.log file.

I''m pretty sure that the dispatcher is never getting started, but I
don''t
really know what that means or how to fix it.

I''ve deleted and recreated the project several times now doing EXACTLY
what
I did when I saw it almost work that one time.  Since that one time, though,
the dispatch.fcgi file has never been read.  I''ve made sure that
dispatch.fgci is identical to the file that I use in my trivial
application.  Since it never gets started, I''m guessing that this
problem is
not caused by anything in my rails code, right?  Because it seems that none
of that even gets looked at until dispatch.fcgi gets kicked off.

On 7/17/06, Al Evans <anejr@alevans.com> wrote:>
> Terry Donaghe wrote:
>
> > I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''m pretty
> > much
> > at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about. 
Can
> > anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might
> > help
> > me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
>
> Does log/fastcgi.crash.log have anything in it? If so, there''s
some
> problem in the application. If not, the dispatcher is never getting
> started.
>
> --Al Evans
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

-- 
Terry (TAD) Donaghe
http://www.tadspot.com
http://www.rubynoob.com
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Terry Donaghe

2006-Jul-17 13:29 UTC

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Hi Ian,

I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that none of
the rails code has even been looked at by the system, right?  From
everything that I''ve been doing so far, I''m pretty sure
(though I could be
wrong) that the problem is in the system not reading or starting or whatever
fcgi.

Terry

On 7/17/06, Ian Connor <ian.connor@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the debug
"puts"
> from all the code. This will mess up the headers if the puts output goes to
> the wrong place.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Ian.
>
> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe <terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
>
> I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at
dreamhost.  I am
> getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start properly"
error.  The
> logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the
> error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file) I see
the
> following for each of my attempts:
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a
problem
> with FCGI.  For some more background:
>
> I have followed the instructions listed here:
>
> http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
>
> This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
local box
> through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied everything
properly and
> set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various files as
> shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755" to
my public directory
> and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
>
> killall -USR1
>
> dispatch.fcgi
>
> when I try that I get this message:
>
> dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
>
> In another thread someone suggested doing this:
>
> ps aux | grep dispatch
>
> Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m
> not very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means that FCGI
is not
> running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested using
"touch" on
> dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything either...
>
> I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost
and
> elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
>
> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m
pretty
> much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about. 
Can
> anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might help
> me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
>
> Thanks!!
> --
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ian Connor
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>

-- 
Terry (TAD) Donaghe
http://www.tadspot.com
http://www.rubynoob.com
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Andrew Stone

2006-Jul-17 13:51 UTC

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Check your ruby path declaration in dispatch.fcgi.  I''ve seen this type
of
error when this is not correct (invalid path to ruby).


-- 
Andrew Stone
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Al Evans

2006-Jul-17 14:10 UTC

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[Rails] Re: Re: Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Terry Donaghe wrote:> Hi Al,
> 
> There is no log/fastcgi.crash.log file.
That seems to imply that dispatch.fcgi is never getting started.

I think somebody already suggested making sure that the hashbang line in 
dispatch.fcgi matches what you see when you type "which ruby".

The only other thing I can think of is: Are you sure you checked the box 
for FastCGI support on the DH control panel, and set the "Web
Directory"
to the path to your Rails public directory?

--Al Evans

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Brian Hogan

2006-Jul-17 14:59 UTC

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[Rails] Re: Re: Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Most common Dreamhost deployment errros:
1. Dreamhost has switched some of the servers to Apache2.... and Rails no
longer runs in Production mode by default.  Set the environment to
production by commenting out the appropriate line in config/environment.rb
2. Make sure you check USE FAST CGI when you create your domain in the
Dreamhost panel
3. Make sure that dispatch.fcgi has appropriate permissions... rwx  (chmod
775 works well for this file)
4. Make sure that the first line of dispatch.fcgi is  #!/usr/bin/ruby
5. Make sure that .htaccess points to dispatch.fcgi and not
dispatch.cgi(the default)
6. Make sure you have frozen your gems so you don''t get beaten up when
Rails
gets updated system-wide
7. Errors with the format of the database.yml file

Finally, to avoid random 500 errors, you can replace your dispatch.fcgi with
this one:

http://svn.napcsweb.com/public/deploy_on_dreamhost/dispatch.fcgi

On 7/17/06, Al Evans <anejr@alevans.com> wrote:>
> Terry Donaghe wrote:
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > There is no log/fastcgi.crash.log file.
>
> That seems to imply that dispatch.fcgi is never getting started.
>
> I think somebody already suggested making sure that the hashbang line in
> dispatch.fcgi matches what you see when you type "which ruby".
>
> The only other thing I can think of is: Are you sure you checked the box
> for FastCGI support on the DH control panel, and set the "Web
Directory"
> to the path to your Rails public directory?
>
> --Al Evans
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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Nathan Leach

2006-Jul-17 15:09 UTC

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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Terry,
 
If you copied your entire project to Dreamhost from a machine with a different
OS, I believe this would cause serious problems.  The way I do it is to generate
the project on Dreamhost using SSH, then move just the app, db, and
public/stylesheets folders (along with any other individual files) to the server
via SFTP.  That solved my deployment problems.  Hope this helps.
 
Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org
[mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org]On Behalf Of Terry Donaghe
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:54 PM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: [Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations


Hi all!

I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at dreamhost.  I
am getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start properly"
error.  The logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look in
the error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file) I see
the following for each of my attempts:


[Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client  130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with
(dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)


[Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client  130.13.244.211] FastCGI: incomplete
headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"


[Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client  130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with
(dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)


[Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client  130.13.244.211] FastCGI: incomplete
headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi">From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a
problem with FCGI.  For some more background:
I have followed the instructions listed here:

http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost

This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my local box
through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied everything
properly and set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various
files as shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755"
to my public directory and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks
like this:


#!/usr/bin/ruby
I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:


killall -USR1 

dispatch.fcgi

when I try that I get this message:

dispatch.fcgi: no process killed

In another thread someone suggested doing this:

ps aux | grep dispatch

Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m not very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means
that FCGI is not running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested
using "touch" on dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish
anything either...

I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost and
elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.

I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m pretty
much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about.  Can
anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might help me
get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.

Thanks!!
-- 
Terry (TAD) Donaghe
http://www.tadspot.com
http://www.rubynoob.com 

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Brian Hogan

2006-Jul-17 15:21 UTC

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Nathan: Great advice, and one I forgot to mention.

On 7/17/06, Nathan Leach <nathan.leach@phifer.com>
wrote:>
>  Terry,
>
> If you copied your entire project to Dreamhost from a machine with a
> different OS, I believe this would cause serious problems.  The way I do it
> is to generate the project on Dreamhost using SSH, then move just the app,
> db, and public/stylesheets folders (along with any other individual files)
> to the server via SFTP.  That solved my deployment problems.  Hope this
> helps.
>
> Nathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org [mailto:
> rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org]*On Behalf Of *Terry Donaghe
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:54 PM
> *To:* rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> *Subject:* [Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations
>
> Hi all!
>
> I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at
dreamhost.  I am
> getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start properly"
error.  The
> logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the
> error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file) I see
the
> following for each of my attempts:
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm
with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a
problem
> with FCGI.  For some more background:
>
> I have followed the instructions listed here:
>
> http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
>
> This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
local box
> through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied everything
properly and
> set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various files as
> shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755" to
my public directory
> and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>
> I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
>
> killall -USR1
> dispatch.fcgi
>
> when I try that I get this message:
>
> dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
>
> In another thread someone suggested doing this:
>
> ps aux | grep dispatch
>
> Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m
> not very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means that FCGI
is not
> running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested using
"touch" on
> dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything either...
>
> I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost
and
> elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
>
> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m
pretty
> much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google about. 
Can
> anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might help
> me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
>
> Thanks!!
> --
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
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Ian Connor

2006-Jul-18 01:13 UTC

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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Trry, sorry about that I missed that part about it not starting at all. For
me the puts resulted in the errors

 FastCGI: incomplete headers

but it looks like the other suggestions in this thread are probably worth
working through first. I have never used dreamhost and just had the header
problems when going from windows to linux. The list posted by Brian seem
like a good start.

Ian.

On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe <terry.donaghe@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that none of
> the rails code has even been looked at by the system, right?  From
> everything that I''ve been doing so far, I''m pretty sure
(though I could be
> wrong) that the problem is in the system not reading or starting or
whatever
> fcgi.
>
> Terry
>
>
> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor <ian.connor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the debug
> > "puts" from all the code. This will mess up the headers if
the puts output
> > goes to the wrong place.
> >
> > Does that help?
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >  On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> >
> > I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at
dreamhost.  I
> > am getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start
properly" error.
> > The logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app, when I look
in the
> > error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache error log file)
I see the
> > following for each of my attempts:
> >
> > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211] FastCGI:
comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> >
> >
> >
> > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client 130.13.244.211
> > ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> >
> >
> > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> >
> >
> > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from
server "/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> >
> >
> > From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates
a problem
> > with FCGI.  For some more background:
> >
> > I have followed the instructions listed here:
> >
> > http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
> >
> > This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
local box
> > through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied
everything properly and
> > set up the various config files properly.  I editted the various files
as
> > shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod 755"
to my public directory
> > and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks like this:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> >
> > I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
> >
> > killall -USR1
> >
> >
> > dispatch.fcgi
> >
> > when I try that I get this message:
> >
> > dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
> >
> > In another thread someone suggested doing this:
> >
> > ps aux | grep dispatch
> >
> > Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to dispatch. 
I''m
> > not very familiar with Unix, but I''m guessing this means that
FCGI is not
> > running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested using
"touch" on
> > dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything either...
> >
> > I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from
Dreamhost and
> > elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
> >
> > I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''m pretty
> > much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google
about.  Can
> > anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that might
help
> > me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned frustrated.
> >
> > Thanks!!
> > --
> > Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> > http://www.tadspot.com
> > http://www.rubynoob.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ian Connor
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Ian Connor
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Terry Donaghe

2006-Jul-23 22:19 UTC

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Hi all,

I actually figured out the problem!!   Or at least I think I did.  For
whatever reason, it seems that if I modify my config/environment.rb file I
get this problem - the app times out and the logs report that
dispatch.fcgiwas never read.  My little app uses the flickr gem which
depends on another
gem called xml-simple.  I followed the instructions here:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Using_Gems_Installed_in_Your_Home_Directory

I unpacked the gems into my vendor directory and inserted a line like:

ENV[''GEM_PATH''] =
File.expand_path(''~/.gems'') +
'':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8''

into the environment.rb file.  After some experimentation with another app,
I discovered that no matter where I place this line in my
environment.rbfile I would get the can''t read
dispatch.fcgi error.  I tried the other solution in the above link and
placed this line in the file:

config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gem_name/lib )

substituting the proper values for gem_name for both of my gems.  This
causes the same time out errors as well.

Finally, I removed all changes to the environment.rb file (except where I
uncommented out the production line) and then copied the flickr.rb and
xmlsimple.rb files into my app/controllers directory.  I restarted
dispatch.fcgi and everything works fine now!

My question now is, why does this happen, and is there another solution I
should try so that I don''t have to copy these files out of my
vendor/gem_name directories?  Maybe they need to be unpacked somewhere else?

Thanks for any illumination!

Terry


On 7/17/06, Ian Connor <ian.connor@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> Trry, sorry about that I missed that part about it not starting at all.
> For me the puts resulted in the errors
>
>  FastCGI: incomplete headers
>
> but it looks like the other suggestions in this thread are probably worth
> working through first. I have never used dreamhost and just had the header
> problems when going from windows to linux. The list posted by Brian seem
> like a good start.
>
>
> Ian.
>
> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe <terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that none
> > of the rails code has even been looked at by the system, right?  From
> > everything that I''ve been doing so far, I''m pretty
sure (though I could be
> > wrong) that the problem is in the system not reading or starting or
whatever
> > fcgi.
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >
> > On 7/17/06, Ian Connor < ian.connor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the
debug
> > > "puts" from all the code. This will mess up the headers
if the puts output
> > > goes to the wrong place.
> > >
> > > Does that help?
> > >
> > > Ian.
> > >
> > >  On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain
at dreamhost.
> > > I am getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to start
properly"
> > > error.  The logs for my app are empty.  In the DreamHost FTP app,
when I
> > > look in the error.log file (I''m guessing this the Apache
error log
> > > file) I see the following for each of my attempts:
> > >
> > > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
> > > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
> > > 130.13.244.211
> > > ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > >
> > > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> > >
> > >
> > > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > >
> > > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received
from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this
indicates a
> > > problem with FCGI.  For some more background:
> > >
> > > I have followed the instructions listed here:
> > >
> > > http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
> > >
> > > This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested
on my local
> > > box through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied
everything properly
> > > and set up the various config files properly.  I editted the
various files
> > > as shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done "chmod
755" to my public
> > > directory and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang looks
like this:
> > >
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > >
> > > I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
> > >
> > > killall -USR1
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > dispatch.fcgi
> > >
> > > when I try that I get this message:
> > >
> > > dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
> > >
> > > In another thread someone suggested doing this:
> > >
> > > ps aux | grep dispatch
> > >
> > > Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to
dispatch.
> > > I''m not very familiar with Unix, but I''m
guessing this means that FCGI is
> > > not running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone suggested
using "touch"
> > > on dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything
either...
> > >
> > > I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from
Dreamhost and
> > > elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
> > >
> > > I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''m pretty
> > > much at the complete end of things that I can think of or google
about.  Can
> > > anyone please give me a few more tips or hints or anything that
might help
> > > me get this up and running?  I''m pretty darned
frustrated.
> > >
> > > Thanks!!
> > > --
> > > Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> > > http://www.tadspot.com
> > > http://www.rubynoob.com
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Rails mailing list
> > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Ian Connor
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Rails mailing list
> > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> > http://www.tadspot.com
> > http://www.rubynoob.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ian Connor
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>

-- 
Terry (TAD) Donaghe
http://www.tadspot.com
http://www.rubynoob.com
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Dan Kohn

2006-Jul-23 22:26 UTC

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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Did you try:

rake rails:freeze:gems         # Lock this application to the current  
gems (by unpacking them into vendor/rails)

This is the only safe way to deal with deployment because it  
guarantees you''ll have the same gems on production as on development.

            - dan
-- 
Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com>
<http://www.dankohn.com/>  <tel:+1-415-233-1000>



On Jul 23, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Terry Donaghe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I actually figured out the problem!!   Or at least I think I did.   
> For whatever reason, it seems that if I modify my config/ 
> environment.rb file I get this problem - the app times out and the  
> logs report that dispatch.fcgi was never read.  My little app uses  
> the flickr gem which depends on another gem called xml-simple.  I  
> followed the instructions here:
>
> http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/ 
> Ruby_on_Rails#Using_Gems_Installed_in_Your_Home_Directory
>
> I unpacked the gems into my vendor directory and inserted a line like:
>
> ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = File.expand_path
(''~/.gems'') + '':/usr/lib/ruby/
> gems/1.8''
>
> into the environment.rb file.  After some experimentation with  
> another app, I discovered that no matter where I place this line in  
> my environment.rb file I would get the can''t read dispatch.fcgi  
> error.  I tried the other solution in the above link and placed  
> this line in the file:
>
> config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gem_name/lib )
>
> substituting the proper values for gem_name for both of my gems.   
> This causes the same time out errors as well.
>
> Finally, I removed all changes to the environment.rb file (except  
> where I uncommented out the production line) and then copied the  
> flickr.rb and xmlsimple.rb files into my app/controllers  
> directory.  I restarted dispatch.fcgi and everything works fine now!
>
> My question now is, why does this happen, and is there another  
> solution I should try so that I don''t have to copy these files out
> of my vendor/gem_name directories?  Maybe they need to be unpacked  
> somewhere else?
>
> Thanks for any illumination!
>
> Terry
>
>
> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor <ian.connor@gmail.com > wrote:
> Trry, sorry about that I missed that part about it not starting at  
> all. For me the puts resulted in the errors
>  FastCGI: incomplete headers
> but it looks like the other suggestions in this thread are probably  
> worth working through first. I have never used dreamhost and just  
> had the header problems when going from windows to linux. The list  
> posted by Brian seem like a good start.
>
>
> Ian.
>
> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that  
> none of the rails code has even been looked at by the system,  
> right?  From everything that I''ve been doing so far, I''m
pretty
> sure (though I could be wrong) that the problem is in the system  
> not reading or starting or whatever fcgi.
>
> Terry
>
>
> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor < ian.connor@gmail.com> wrote:
> When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the debug  
> "puts" from all the code. This will mess up the headers if the
puts
> output goes to the wrong place.
>
> Does that help?
>
> Ian.
>
> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at  
> dreamhost.  I am getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to  
> start properly" error.  The logs for my app are empty.  In the  
> DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the error.log file (I''m guessing
> this the Apache error log file) I see the following for each of my  
> attempts:
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
>
> 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/home/tdonaghe/ 
> flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: (first read)  
> idle timeout (120 sec)
>
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
>
> 130.13.244.211
>
> ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/home/ 
> tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
>
>
> 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/home/tdonaghe/ 
> flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: (first read)  
> idle timeout (120 sec)
>
>
> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
>
>
> 130.13.244.211
> ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/home/ 
> tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>
>
>
> From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates a  
> problem with FCGI.  For some more background:
>
> I have followed the instructions listed here:
>
> http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
>
> This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
local
> box through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied
everything
> properly and set up the various config files properly.  I editted  
> the various files as shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done
"chmod
> 755" to my public directory and to the dispatch* files in there.   
> My she-bang looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
>
> killall -USR1
>
>
>
>
> dispatch.fcgi
>
> when I try that I get this message:
>
> dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
>
> In another thread someone suggested doing this:
>
> ps aux | grep dispatch
>
> Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to  
> dispatch.  I''m not very familiar with Unix, but I''m
guessing this
> means that FCGI is not running?  If so, how the heck do it up?   
> Someone suggested using "touch" on dispatch.fcgi.  That
didn''t
> accomplish anything either...
>
> I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from Dreamhost
and
> elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
>
> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above.  I''m  
> pretty much at the complete end of things that I can think of or  
> google about.  Can anyone please give me a few more tips or hints  
> or anything that might help me get this up and running?  I''m
pretty
> darned frustrated.
>
> Thanks!!
> -- 
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ian Connor
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ian Connor
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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Terry Donaghe

2006-Jul-23 22:36 UTC

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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Well, I had to do the hack listed on that link just to get the flickr gem.
Dreamhost doesn''t have the flickr gem.

I did this:

gemhome: /home/<YOUR USER NAME HERE>/.gems
gempath:
  - /home/<YOUR USER NAME HERE>/.gems
  - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

But, no I didn''t do a

rake rails:freeze:gems

Would that help in this case?

On 7/23/06, Dan Kohn <dan@dankohn.com> wrote:>
> Did you try:
> rake rails:freeze:gems         # Lock this application to the current gems
> (by unpacking them into vendor/rails)
>
> This is the only safe way to deal with deployment because it guarantees
> you''ll have the same gems on production as on development.
>
>            - dan
> --
> Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com <dan@dankohn.com>>
> <http://www.dankohn.com/>  <tel:+1-415-233-1000>
>
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Terry Donaghe wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I actually figured out the problem!!   Or at least I think I did.  For
> whatever reason, it seems that if I modify my config/environment.rb file I
> get this problem - the app times out and the logs report that
> dispatch.fcgi was never read.  My little app uses the flickr gem which
> depends on another gem called xml-simple.  I followed the instructions
here:
>
>
>
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Using_Gems_Installed_in_Your_Home_Directory
>
> I unpacked the gems into my vendor directory and inserted a line like:
>
> ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = File.expand_path
(''~/.gems'') + '':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8''
>
> into the environment.rb file.  After some experimentation with another
> app, I discovered that no matter where I place this line in my
> environment.rb file I would get the can''t read dispatch.fcgi
error.  I
> tried the other solution in the above link and placed this line in the
file:
>
> config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gem_name/lib )
>
> substituting the proper values for gem_name for both of my gems.  This
> causes the same time out errors as well.
>
> Finally, I removed all changes to the environment.rb file (except where I
> uncommented out the production line) and then copied the flickr.rb and
> xmlsimple.rb files into my app/controllers directory.  I restarted
> dispatch.fcgi and everything works fine now!
>
> My question now is, why does this happen, and is there another solution I
> should try so that I don''t have to copy these files out of my
> vendor/gem_name directories?  Maybe they need to be unpacked somewhere
else?
>
>
> Thanks for any illumination!
>
> Terry
>
>
> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor <ian.connor@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Trry, sorry about that I missed that part about it not starting at
all.
> > For me the puts resulted in the errors
> >
> >  FastCGI: incomplete headers
> >
> > but it looks like the other suggestions in this thread are probably
> > worth working through first. I have never used dreamhost and just had
the
> > header problems when going from windows to linux. The list posted by
Brian
> > seem like a good start.
> >
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> > On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Ian,
> > >
> > > I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that
none
> > > of the rails code has even been looked at by the system, right? 
From
> > > everything that I''ve been doing so far, I''m
pretty sure (though I could be
> > > wrong) that the problem is in the system not reading or starting
or whatever
> > > fcgi.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/17/06, Ian Connor < ian.connor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the
debug
> > > > "puts" from all the code. This will mess up the
headers if the puts output
> > > > goes to the wrong place.
> > > >
> > > > Does that help?
> > > >
> > > > Ian.
> > > >
> > > >  On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all!
> > > >
> > > > I''m trying to deploy an application out to a
subdomain at
> > > > dreamhost.  I am getting the dreaded "Rails application
failed to start
> > > > properly" error.  The logs for my app are empty.  In
the DreamHost FTP app,
> > > > when I look in the error.log file (I''m guessing
this the Apache
> > > > error log file) I see the following for each of my attempts:
> > > >
> > > > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
> > > >
> > > > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
> > > >
> > > > 130.13.244.211
> > > >
> > > > ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
(first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 130.13.244.211
> > > > ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
"/home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this
indicates a
> > > > problem with FCGI.  For some more background:
> > > >
> > > > I have followed the instructions listed here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
> > > >
> > > > This is a very simple non database app that I''ve
tested on my local
> > > > box through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve
copied everything properly
> > > > and set up the various config files properly.  I editted the
various files
> > > > as shown in the tutorial above.  I''ve done
"chmod 755" to my public
> > > > directory and to the dispatch* files in there.  My she-bang
looks like this:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > #!/usr/bin/ruby
> > > >
> > > > I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
> > > >
> > > > killall -USR1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > dispatch.fcgi
> > > >
> > > > when I try that I get this message:
> > > >
> > > > dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
> > > >
> > > > In another thread someone suggested doing this:
> > > >
> > > > ps aux | grep dispatch
> > > >
> > > > Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to
dispatch.
> > > > I''m not very familiar with Unix, but I''m
guessing this means that FCGI is
> > > > not running?  If so, how the heck do it up?  Someone
suggested using "touch"
> > > > on dispatch.fcgi.  That didn''t accomplish anything
either...
> > > >
> > > > I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice
from Dreamhost and
> > > > elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
> > > >
> > > > I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''m
> > > > pretty much at the complete end of things that I can think
of or google
> > > > about.  Can anyone please give me a few more tips or hints
or anything that
> > > > might help me get this up and running?  I''m pretty
darned frustrated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!!
> > > > --
> > > > Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> > > > http://www.tadspot.com
> > > > http://www.rubynoob.com
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Rails mailing list
> > > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ian Connor
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Rails mailing list
> > > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> > > http://www.tadspot.com
> > > http://www.rubynoob.com
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Rails mailing list
> > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ian Connor
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
> http://www.tadspot.com
> http://www.rubynoob.com_______________________________________________
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[Rails] Rails, FCGI, DreamHost, and endless frustrations

Presumably, you have the flickr gem on your development machine to  
get the code working.  rake:freeze:gems copies that exact gem into  
the vendor/rails directory (so that you can check it into your  
version control).  Then, when you do rake deploy, that exact gem will  
be copied from your subversion repository to Dreamhost (still in the  
vendor/rails directory).  So, you never need to worry about Dreamhost  
installing the gem on their own (or you installing it manually).  I  
believe it''s a much better solution than what Dreamhost recommends,  
since you''re guaranteed that the gem on the server always matches the  
one of your development machine.  (Also note that Dreamhost provides  
free Subversion, which you definitely need to be using as part of  
your Capistrano deployment.)

            - dan
-- 
Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com>
<http://www.dankohn.com/>  <tel:+1-415-233-1000>



On Jul 23, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Terry Donaghe wrote:
> Well, I had to do the hack listed on that link just to get the  
> flickr gem.  Dreamhost doesn''t have the flickr gem.
>
> I did this:
>
> gemhome: /home//.gems
> gempath:
>   - /home//.gems
>
>   - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
> But, no I didn''t do a
>
> rake rails:freeze:gems
>
> Would that help in this case?
>
> On 7/23/06, Dan Kohn < dan@dankohn.com> wrote:
> Did you try:
>
> rake rails:freeze:gems         # Lock this application to the  
> current gems (by unpacking them into vendor/rails)
>
> This is the only safe way to deal with deployment because it  
> guarantees you''ll have the same gems on production as on
development.
>
>            - dan
> -- 
> Dan Kohn < mailto:dan@dankohn.com >
> < http://www.dankohn.com/ >  <tel:+1-415-233-1000>
>
>
>
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Terry Donaghe wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I actually figured out the problem!!   Or at least I think I did.   
>> For whatever reason, it seems that if I modify my config/ 
>> environment.rb file I get this problem - the app times out and the  
>> logs report that dispatch.fcgi was never read.  My little app uses  
>> the flickr gem which depends on another gem called xml-simple.  I  
>> followed the instructions here:
>>
>> http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/ 
>> Ruby_on_Rails#Using_Gems_Installed_in_Your_Home_Directory
>>
>> I unpacked the gems into my vendor directory and inserted a line  
>> like:
>>
>> ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = File.expand_path
(''~/.gems'') + '':/usr/lib/ruby/
>> gems/1.8''
>>
>> into the environment.rb file.  After some experimentation with  
>> another app, I discovered that no matter where I place this line  
>> in my environment.rb file I would get the can''t read
dispatch.fcgi
>> error.  I tried the other solution in the above link and placed  
>> this line in the file:
>>
>> config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/gem_name/lib )
>>
>> substituting the proper values for gem_name for both of my gems.   
>> This causes the same time out errors as well.
>>
>> Finally, I removed all changes to the environment.rb file (except  
>> where I uncommented out the production line) and then copied the  
>> flickr.rb and xmlsimple.rb files into my app/controllers  
>> directory.  I restarted dispatch.fcgi and everything works fine now!
>>
>> My question now is, why does this happen, and is there another  
>> solution I should try so that I don''t have to copy these files
out
>> of my vendor/gem_name directories?  Maybe they need to be unpacked  
>> somewhere else?
>>
>> Thanks for any illumination!
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor < ian.connor@gmail.com > wrote:
>> Trry, sorry about that I missed that part about it not starting at  
>> all. For me the puts resulted in the errors
>>  FastCGI: incomplete headers
>> but it looks like the other suggestions in this thread are  
>> probably worth working through first. I have never used dreamhost  
>> and just had the header problems when going from windows to linux.  
>> The list posted by Brian seem like a good start.
>>
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> I think the fact that dispatch.fcgi never gets started means that  
>> none of the rails code has even been looked at by the system,  
>> right?  From everything that I''ve been doing so far,
I''m pretty
>> sure (though I could be wrong) that the problem is in the system  
>> not reading or starting or whatever fcgi.
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/06, Ian Connor < ian.connor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When moving to FastCGI, I had to make sure I removed all the debug  
>> "puts" from all the code. This will mess up the headers if
the
>> puts output goes to the wrong place.
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>> On 7/17/06, Terry Donaghe < terry.donaghe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I''m trying to deploy an application out to a subdomain at  
>> dreamhost.  I am getting the dreaded "Rails application failed to
>> start properly" error.  The logs for my app are empty.  In the  
>> DreamHost FTP app, when I look in the error.log file (I''m
guessing
>> this the Apache error log file) I see the following for each of my  
>> attempts:
>>
>> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
>>
>>
>> 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/home/ 
>> tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:  
>> (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>>
>>
>>
>> [Sun Jul 16 12:36:32 2006] [error] [client
>>
>>
>>
>> 130.13.244.211
>>
>> ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/ 
>> home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>>
>>
>>
>> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
>>
>>
>>
>> 130.13.244.211] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/home/ 
>> tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:  
>> (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>>
>>
>> [Sun Jul 16 12:44:13 2006] [error] [client
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 130.13.244.211
>> ] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/ 
>> home/tdonaghe/flickr.icuo.us/flickr/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>>
>>
>>
>> From what I''ve seen in doing research, I think this indicates
a
>> problem with FCGI.  For some more background:
>>
>> I have followed the instructions listed here:
>>
>> http://www.railshosting.org/#dreamhost
>>
>> This is a very simple non database app that I''ve tested on my
>> local box through a WebBrick server.  I think that I''ve copied
>> everything properly and set up the various config files properly.   
>> I editted the various files as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''ve
>> done "chmod 755" to my public directory and to the dispatch*
files
>> in there.  My she-bang looks like this:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>> I''ve tried to kill FCGI various times using:
>>
>> killall -USR1
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> dispatch.fcgi
>>
>> when I try that I get this message:
>>
>> dispatch.fcgi: no process killed
>>
>> In another thread someone suggested doing this:
>>
>> ps aux | grep dispatch
>>
>> Which I did and nothing shows up for anything relating to  
>> dispatch.  I''m not very familiar with Unix, but I''m
guessing this
>> means that FCGI is not running?  If so, how the heck do it up?   
>> Someone suggested using "touch" on dispatch.fcgi.  That
didn''t
>> accomplish anything either...
>>
>> I''ve looked at all of the Troubleshooting advice from
Dreamhost
>> and elsewhere.  I''m just at a loss.
>>
>> I have mapped my subdomain as shown in the tutorial above. 
I''m
>> pretty much at the complete end of things that I can think of or  
>> google about.  Can anyone please give me a few more tips or hints  
>> or anything that might help me get this up and running?  I''m  
>> pretty darned frustrated.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> -- 
>> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
>> http://www.tadspot.com
>> http://www.rubynoob.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Ian Connor
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
>> http://www.tadspot.com
>> http://www.rubynoob.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Ian Connor
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Terry (TAD) Donaghe
>> http://www.tadspot.com
>> http://www.rubynoob.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rails mailing list
>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
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