Rails - May 2006 - First try with lighttpd

Hi,

I have a Rails application sitting on my computer that works just fine
with webrick. I would like to try to serve it locally with lighttpd

I followed the instructions on the hivelogic site for installing lighttpd

http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

Then I looked on page 457 in the Agile Rails book for instructions
about configuring the rails app for lighttpd and wrote the config file
at the bottom of this email.

I started the Rails app with "lighttpd -f config/lighttpd.conf".

When I tried to view the site in a browser I saw an unexpected error

   #28000Access denied for user
''root''@''localhost'' (using password: NO)

In my database.yml file i am not using root for the mysql user for
either development or production. Does lighttpd not know to look in
database.yml?

Thanks,
Peter



server.port = 80
server.bind = "127.0.0.1"
server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue"
server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi" )
url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html",
"^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html" )
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
server.document-root = "/Users/peter/characters/public"
server.errorlog = "/Users/peter/characters/log/server.log"
fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
  ( "localhost" =>
    (
       "min-procs" => 10,
       "max-procs" => 10,
       "socket" => "/tmp/characters.fcgi.socket",
       "bin-path" =>
"/Users/peter/characters/public/dispatch.fcgi",
       "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"production" )
    )
  )
)

Hi,

I''ve been trying to get just an empty Rails site to work with the
lighttpd config file below. I can''t even see the Welcome
you''re riding
the rails page.

Any ideas what to do?

Thanks,
Peter


On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux <petermichaux@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Rails application sitting on my computer that works just fine
> with webrick. I would like to try to serve it locally with lighttpd
>
> I followed the instructions on the hivelogic site for installing lighttpd
>
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger
>
> Then I looked on page 457 in the Agile Rails book for instructions
> about configuring the rails app for lighttpd and wrote the config file
> at the bottom of this email.
>
> I started the Rails app with "lighttpd -f config/lighttpd.conf".
>
> When I tried to view the site in a browser I saw an unexpected error
>
>    #28000Access denied for user
''root''@''localhost'' (using password: NO)
>
> In my database.yml file i am not using root for the mysql user for
> either development or production. Does lighttpd not know to look in
> database.yml?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
server.port = 3000
server.bind = "127.0.0.1"
server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue"
server.modules = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_fastcgi" )
url.rewrite = ( "^/$" => "index.html",
"^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html" )
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
server.document-root = "/Users/peter/characters/public"
server.errorlog = "/Users/peter/characters/log/server.log"
fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
 ( "localhost" =>
   (
      "min-procs" => 10,
      "max-procs" => 10,
      "socket" => "/tmp/characters.fcgi.socket",
      "bin-path" =>
"/Users/peter/characters/public/dispatch.fcgi",
      "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"production" )
   )
 )
)

Hello,

Try deleting your lighttpd.conf.

Then run "script/server" on your app WITHOUT anything else. Rails will
use lighttpd by default and import a lighttpd.conf

Hope this works.

Ben

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On 5/21/06, Ben <whywontitletme@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Try deleting your lighttpd.conf.
>
> Then run "script/server" on your app WITHOUT anything else. Rails
will
> use lighttpd by default and import a lighttpd.conf
Hi Ben,

Thanks for the advice. It did create an lighttpd.conf and I am able to
view the "Welcome aboard!" Rails page.

However when I generate a controller and basic view

$ script/generate controller front index

restart the server, and navigate to

http://localhost:3000/front

the server crashes. I look in log/fascgi.crash and find

[21/May/2006:12:03:40 :: 781] starting
[21/May/2006:12:04:06 :: 792] starting
[21/May/2006:12:04:40 :: 792] Dispatcher failed to catch:  (Interrupt)
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each''
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi''
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in
`process!''
  /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:23:in
`process!''
  /Users/peter/temp/public/dispatch.fcgi:24
killed by this error





This all does work if I use webrick server.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter