Rails - Aug 2005 - rails with lighttpd

I know this is probably more lighttpd specific but I''m only stuck on
one little thing and thought someone might have an answer.

Say I have a controller mycontroller setup with the default
scaffolding..  Lighttpd is running but is returning a 404 for
everything but /public/index.html.  Lighttpd is bound to one ip on
port 80 with no virtual host stuff configured.
>From a quick look it appears that the following would tell the server
that every request to rails.paymentonline.net gets served by whatever
is specified in bin-path.  Is that correct?  I''m kind of guessing here
but that''s the only thing that seems to make sense.  However it
doesn''t seem to work.  What piece of the picture am I missing here?

Chris


$HTTP["host"] =~ "rails\.paymentonline\.net" {
server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi", "index.html" )
server.document-root        = "/home/chris/rails/track/public" 
fastcgi.server =  (".fcgi" => ( "railsapp" =>  
  ( "min-procs" => 1,
    "max-procs" => 5,
    "socket" => "/tmp/ruby-railsapp.fcgi",
    "bin-path" =>
"/home/chris/rails/track/public/dispatch.fcgi",
    "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"development" )
  )
))
}

Dumb me.  The session files from when I used webrick were owned by
another user and not readable.  The fastcgi log was saying the
dispatcher couldn''t catch the error for some reason.

Chris

snacktime wrote:
> I know this is probably more lighttpd specific but I''m only stuck
on
> one little thing and thought someone might have an answer.
> 
> Say I have a controller mycontroller setup with the default
> scaffolding..  Lighttpd is running but is returning a 404 for
> everything but /public/index.html.  Lighttpd is bound to one ip on
> port 80 with no virtual host stuff configured.
> 
>>From a quick look it appears that the following would tell the server
> that every request to rails.paymentonline.net gets served by whatever
> is specified in bin-path.  Is that correct?  I''m kind of guessing
here
> but that''s the only thing that seems to make sense.  However it
> doesn''t seem to work.  What piece of the picture am I missing
here?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> $HTTP["host"] =~ "rails\.paymentonline\.net" {
> server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
> server.indexfiles = ( "dispatch.fcgi", "index.html" )
> server.document-root        = "/home/chris/rails/track/public" 
> fastcgi.server =  (".fcgi" => ( "railsapp" =>  
>   ( "min-procs" => 1,
>     "max-procs" => 5,
>     "socket" => "/tmp/ruby-railsapp.fcgi",
>     "bin-path" =>
"/home/chris/rails/track/public/dispatch.fcgi",
>     "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"development" )
>   )
> ))
> }
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Hi,

This is my lighttpd.conf, as reference:

#### default host
$HTTP["host"] =~ "" {
   server.document-root = "/sites/jkcosta.info/www/public"
   fastcgi.server = (
     ".fcgi" => ( "localhost" => (
       "min-procs" => 1,
       "max-procs" => 5,
       "socket" => "/tmp/lighttpd/jkcosta.info.socket",
       "bin-path" =>
"/sites/jkcosta.info/www/public/dispatch.fcgi",
       "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"production" )
       ) )
   )
   server.error-handler-500 = "/500.html"
   server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
   cgi.assign = (".rb" => "/usr/local/bin/ruby",
".cgi" =>
"/usr/local/bin/ruby"
)
}

Ensure that the lighttpd user/group have the permission to write the 
sockets. In my case, its rwx for the group lighttpd in /tmp/lighttpd 
dir. Also, ensure that lighttpd have execute permissions to dispatch.fcgi .

Actually, as my lighttpd isn''t configured to
''rewrite'' the URL (I don''t
even know if its possible in lighttpd), every ''Rails URL''
should return
a 404 error. The ''catcher'' for 404 is my dispatcher.fcgi. So,
if the
file doesn''t exists, go to rails :-)

Also, what''s in your error log?

regards,
-- 
juca
juca at jkcosta dot info
htt://jkcosta.info