Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ? My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at which point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I''ve used script/console to confirm that I can require ''ferret'' and make a new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect. Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except : [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: comm with (dynamic) server "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: (first read) idle timeout (120 sec) [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I remove the plugin the site works ok. I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not starting. Would appreciate any comments, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Hi, I am experiencing exactly the same phenomenon. Everything works find on my powerbook, but not on DH. I changed bash_profile to add my local .gems directory and installed ferret with no apparent problems. I added a line to environment.rb as instructed in the wiki but still get the same problems when I try to deploy my new site (via Capistrano). Likewise I think dispatch.fcgi is not starting. Any ideas? Chris Lowis wrote:> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ? > > My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at which > point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I''ve > used script/console to confirm that I can require ''ferret'' and make a > new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect. > Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except : > > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: comm > with (dynamic) server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: > (first read) idle timeout (120 sec) > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: > incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" > > in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and > error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I > remove the plugin the site works ok. > > I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not > starting. > > Would appreciate any comments, > > Chris-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I think I figured out this problem. All you had to do was add this line
to the top of environment.rb
ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = ''/home/USERNAME/.gems'' +
'':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8''
The DH wiki says to put the following, but it didn''t seem to work.
ENV[''GEM_PATH''] =
File.expand_path(''~/.gems'') +
'':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8''
I actually created a new test project in dev. mode and saw an error
some where like "couldn''t expand ~" or "unknown comand
expand_path" or
something like that and just put in the absolute path as above on a
whim. Then it worked fine.
anrake wrote:> Hi, I am experiencing exactly the same phenomenon.
> Everything works find on my powerbook, but not on DH. I changed
> bash_profile to add my local .gems directory and installed ferret with
> no apparent problems. I added a line to environment.rb as instructed in
> the wiki but still get the same problems when I try to deploy my new
> site (via Capistrano). Likewise I think dispatch.fcgi is not starting.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Chris Lowis wrote:
>> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ?
>>
>> My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at
which
>> point I get "Rails application failed to start properly"
errors. I''ve
>> used script/console to confirm that I can require
''ferret'' and make a
>> new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect.
>> Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except :
>>
>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI:
comm
>> with (dynamic) server
>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi"
aborted:
>> (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI:
>> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>>
>> in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through
trial and
>> error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I
>> remove the plugin the site works ok.
>>
>> I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not
>> starting.
>>
>> Would appreciate any comments,
>>
>> Chris
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I recently put a site up on dreamhost (my first on dh, and my first using ferret/aaf). I don''t believe I had the problem stated below, but it''s hard to tell. On occassion it appears that fastcgi isn''t starting, but if I poke at it a bit (touch dispatch.fcgi) enough, it eventually will fire up. Pages without ferret appear to work fine. Search pages, however, barely/rarely work. My guess is that dreamhost is killing the fastcgi process due to high cpu and/or memory, but I''m not sure how to verify that. In script/console, I ran a search and it took about 50 seconds to return. So clearly I have something amiss with my ferret/aaf config or how I''m using it. I have about 50k rows in one table and 7 fields indexed (with only 4 of them ever being populated with data). I currently have ferret 0.9.3. I''ve tried upgrading to the latest, but haven''t been able to get a new aaf (see post about not being able to install latest aaf) to accompany it so I''m kinda stuck there until I can get a new aaf. Anyway, if anybody has any ideas or expectations that should be set with a shared hosting plan at dreamhost, I''m all ears. Thanks -Mark anrake o. wrote:> I think I figured out this problem. All you had to do was add this line > to the top of environment.rb > > ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = ''/home/USERNAME/.gems'' + '':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'' > > The DH wiki says to put the following, but it didn''t seem to work. > > ENV[''GEM_PATH''] = File.expand_path(''~/.gems'') + > '':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'' > > I actually created a new test project in dev. mode and saw an error > some where like "couldn''t expand ~" or "unknown comand expand_path" or > something like that and just put in the absolute path as above on a > whim. Then it worked fine. > > > anrake wrote: >> Hi, I am experiencing exactly the same phenomenon. >> Everything works find on my powerbook, but not on DH. I changed >> bash_profile to add my local .gems directory and installed ferret with >> no apparent problems. I added a line to environment.rb as instructed in >> the wiki but still get the same problems when I try to deploy my new >> site (via Capistrano). Likewise I think dispatch.fcgi is not starting. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Chris Lowis wrote: >>> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ? >>> >>> My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at which >>> point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I''ve >>> used script/console to confirm that I can require ''ferret'' and make a >>> new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect. >>> Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except : >>> >>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: comm >>> with (dynamic) server >>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: >>> (first read) idle timeout (120 sec) >>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: >>> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server >>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" >>> >>> in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and >>> error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I >>> remove the plugin the site works ok. >>> >>> I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not >>> starting. >>> >>> Would appreciate any comments, >>> >>> Chris-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Chris Lowis wrote:> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ? > > My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at which > point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I''ve > used script/console to confirm that I can require ''ferret'' and make a > new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect. > Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except : > > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: comm > with (dynamic) server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: > (first read) idle timeout (120 sec) > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: > incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" > > in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and > error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I > remove the plugin the site works ok. > > I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not > starting. > > Would appreciate any comments, > > ChrisWhat made the FCGI work for me was: - Creating the development database - Re-commenting out the RAILS_ENV line in environment.rb Although, I was thinking that this would make it a ''development'' env, yet, to my astonismed, it was the production that kicked in. I haven''t had the time to isolate this, but, I finally got it to work. Good Luck. - Tamer Salama -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Chris Lowis wrote:> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ? > > My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at > which > point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I''ve > used script/console to confirm that I can require ''ferret'' and make a > new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect. > Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except : > > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: > comm > with (dynamic) server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: > (first read) idle timeout (120 sec) > [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: > incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server > "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" > > in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and > error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I > remove the plugin the site works ok. > > I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not > starting.I''m not sure if this applies to your situation but I got this particular error message whenever Rails (i.e. dispatch.fcgi) returned a response starting with a whitespace character. Especially AJAX calls to actions that do a ''render :partial'' are prone to this error. Maybe it''s actually the acts_as_ferret plugin that causes fcgi to crash but I thought I better mention it. You might also want to consider Mongrel as an alternative to FCGI. I switched my apps a month ago and I''m really happy with it. Dealing with the peculiarities of FCGI can be very frustrating. At least it''s easier with Mongrel to track down errors. Cheers, Andy
Thank''s to all above for the suggestions, hopefully these will also help someone with the same problem. I notice now that dreamhost has the ferret gem pre-installed, so this might also help.> You might also want to consider Mongrel as an alternative to FCGI. I > switched my apps a month ago and I''m really happy with it. Dealing > with the peculiarities of FCGI can be very frustrating. At least it''s > easier with Mongrel to track down errors.I''d love to ! It''s very nice to work with it on my development machine. At the moment dreamhost doesn''t support mongrel, although dreamhost customers can vote for Mongrel support here : https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=home.sugg&category=Software%20Installations&search=mongrel Thank you all again, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.