Rails - Feb 2006 - FYI lighttpd 1.4.9 has problems running with rails out-of-the-box

In case this helps anyone I recently finished setting up a Debian server
closely following Ezra''s excellent guidance @
http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html.

I used newer libraries in some cases (and mysql 5.0) and everything worked
great until the end when lighttpd wouldn''t start.  I finally figured
out
that Lighty 1.4.9 has a problem working with rails out-of-the-box.  See
ticket http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/487 for more info.

Maybe this will help someone else... and thanks Ezra!

Zack

On Feb 2, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Zack Chandler wrote:
> In case this helps anyone I recently finished setting up a Debian  
> server
> closely following Ezra''s excellent guidance @
> http://brainspl.at/rails_stack.html.
>
> I used newer libraries in some cases (and mysql 5.0) and everything  
> worked
> great until the end when lighttpd wouldn''t start.  I finally  
> figured out
> that Lighty 1.4.9 has a problem working with rails out-of-the-box.   
> See
> ticket http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/487 for more info.
>
> Maybe this will help someone else... and thanks Ezra!
>
> Zack


Zack-

	Thanks for the kind words. I need to update a few things in that  
tutorial ;) But you are correct, in lighttpd1.4.9 you need the full  
path to the public folder and the dicpatch.fcgi. The script/serer  
command generates a lighttpd.conf file in RAILS_ROOT/config/ 
lighttpd.conf that uses relative paths. I think there is a ticket for  
this somewhere but for now you need to manually edit the config file  
after it gets generated the first time and add the full paths to your  
stuff.

Cheers-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
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