Rails - Jun 2006 - Lighttpd works fine in development. Production not happening

Hello,

I''ve checked out my rails tree from svn into the location I intend to 
run in production mode. However, I am unclear on what exactly needs to 
change for it to work in production mode.

Yes I have:
"bin-environment" => ("RAILS_ENV" =>
"production")

When I switch to the externally routed IP address instead of 
0.0.0.0:3000 and try running:
% ruby scripts/server

The server refuses to launch saying it can''t bind to the port. Huh?

The sounds easy. What have I overlooked?

Thanks,
Doug

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

Douglass Turner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I''ve checked out my rails tree from svn into the location I intend
to
> run in production mode. However, I am unclear on what exactly needs to 
> change for it to work in production mode.
> 
> Yes I have:
> "bin-environment" => ("RAILS_ENV" =>
"production")
> 
> When I switch to the externally routed IP address instead of 
> 0.0.0.0:3000 and try running:
> % ruby scripts/server
> 
> The server refuses to launch saying it can''t bind to the port.
Huh?
> 
> The sounds easy. What have I overlooked?
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
You usually need root privileges to bind to ports below 1024.  Are you 
trying to bind to 80 ? And if so, are you root, or using sudo ?

If it''s not that, is there something already running on the port
you''re
trying to use ? (try ''telnet localhost <port>'' and see
if you get a
response)

If it''s not that, is there any kind of firewall type software 
restricting use of that port ?

Alan


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

Alan Francis wrote:
> Douglass Turner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I''ve checked out my rails tree from svn into the location I
intend to
>> run in production mode. However, I am unclear on what exactly needs to 
>> change for it to work in production mode.
>> 
>> Yes I have:
>> "bin-environment" => ("RAILS_ENV" =>
"production")
>> 
>> When I switch to the externally routed IP address instead of 
>> 0.0.0.0:3000 and try running:
>> % ruby scripts/server
>> 
>> The server refuses to launch saying it can''t bind to the port.
Huh?
>> 
>> The sounds easy. What have I overlooked?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Doug
> 
> You usually need root privileges to bind to ports below 1024.  Are you 
> trying to bind to 80 ? And if so, are you root, or using sudo ?
> 
> If it''s not that, is there something already running on the port
you''re
> trying to use ? (try ''telnet localhost <port>'' and
see if you get a
> response)
> 
> If it''s not that, is there any kind of firewall type software 
> restricting use of that port ?
> 
> Alan

Alan,

I am running as root. My host machine which is behind the 
router/firewall in my home is forwarding the appropriate ports.

For example I can telnet myhost.com 25

Note I have not added:
server.username            = "foo_name"
server.groupname           = "foo_group"

Shoud I?

I am just using the config file that is automagically created by Rails 
when I created my app.

-Doug

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

Douglass Turner wrote:
> Alan Francis wrote:
>   
>> Douglass Turner wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I''ve checked out my rails tree from svn into the location
I intend to
>>> run in production mode. However, I am unclear on what exactly needs
to
>>> change for it to work in production mode.
>>>
>>> Yes I have:
>>> "bin-environment" => ("RAILS_ENV" =>
"production")
>>>
>>> When I switch to the externally routed IP address instead of 
>>> 0.0.0.0:3000 and try running:
>>> % ruby scripts/server
>>>
>>> The server refuses to launch saying it can''t bind to the
port. Huh?
>>>
>>> The sounds easy. What have I overlooked?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Doug
>>>       
>> You usually need root privileges to bind to ports below 1024.  Are you 
>> trying to bind to 80 ? And if so, are you root, or using sudo ?
>>
>> If it''s not that, is there something already running on the
port you''re
>> trying to use ? (try ''telnet localhost <port>''
and see if you get a
>> response)
>>
>> If it''s not that, is there any kind of firewall type software 
>> restricting use of that port ?
>>
>> Alan
>>     
>
>
> Alan,
>
> I am running as root. My host machine which is behind the 
> router/firewall in my home is forwarding the appropriate ports.
>
> For example I can telnet myhost.com 25
>
> Note I have not added:
> server.username            = "foo_name"
> server.groupname           = "foo_group"
>
> Shoud I?
>
> I am just using the config file that is automagically created by Rails 
> when I created my app.
>
> -Doug
>
>   
You might just check your running processes, just in case your distro 
added (and booted up on start) apache, or even lighttpd itself. Caught 
me out first time I tried to move from dev to prod

Chris T wrote:
> Douglass Turner wrote:
>>>> Yes I have:
>>>> Thanks,
>>> restricting use of that port ?
>> For example I can telnet myhost.com 25
>> -Doug
>>
>>   
> You might just check your running processes, just in case your distro
> added (and booted up on start) apache, or even lighttpd itself. Caught
> me out first time I tried to move from dev to prod
Here is the actual error I''m getting. I am completely stumped on this. 
I''ve run Apache for years and never had these kinds of head scratchers:

=> Booting lighttpd (use ''script/server webrick'' to force
WEBrick)
=> Rails application started on http://my-server.com:8080
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options)
2006-06-19 14:13:01: (network.c.300) can''t bind to port: 
theimageengine.com 8080 Cannot assign requested address
Exiting


-Doug

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

You seem to have another program running on that port.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060619/9380d353/attachment-0001.html

Nicolai Reuschling wrote:
> You seem to have another program running on that port.
Running ps shows no offending programs, daemons, or whatnot.
Running nmap -sV does not show anything running on the port I want to 
use.

Could someone PLEASE post a working lighttpd.conf file for production 
mode. Just a plain vanilla config file, no bells and whistles.

Thanks,
Doug


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

Douglass Turner wrote:
> Nicolai Reuschling wrote:
>> You seem to have another program running on that port.
> 
I''ve done more digging. No joy yet, but it appears that lighttpd is can
only bind to non routed IP addresses. I cannot associate my external 
"live" IP address or domain name.

Anyone seen this before.

I really, really would like to get this sorted soon, so any and all help 
MUCH appreciated.

-Doug

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

On 6/19/06, Douglass Turner <douglass.turner@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''ve done more digging. No joy yet, but it appears that lighttpd
is can
> only bind to non routed IP addresses. I cannot associate my external
> "live" IP address or domain name.
Can you post your current lighttpd.conf as well as the output of ifconfig?

Jeremy Evans wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Douglass Turner <douglass.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I''ve done more digging. No joy yet, but it appears that
lighttpd is can
>> only bind to non routed IP addresses. I cannot associate my external
>> "live" IP address or domain name.
> 
> Can you post your current lighttpd.conf as well as the output of 
> ifconfig?
lighttpd.conf is vanilla with port and domain name swapped in. Whatever 
Rails generates when I build the scaffold for my app.

ifconfig -a on my suse 10 linux box running behind a router forwarding 
ports:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:9E:D9:2E
          inet addr:192.168.1.111  Bcast:255.255.255.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe9e:d92e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:488297 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:239084 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:46406002 (44.2 Mb)  TX bytes:40158811 (38.2 Mb)
          Interrupt:185 Base address:0x1400

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:71146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:71146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:44396956 (42.3 Mb)  TX bytes:44396956 (42.3 Mb)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)




-Doug

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

This just in,

I grabbed the apache 1.3 tarball, installed it, fired it up and lo and 
behold it serves up html just fine on port 80 using my externally 
routable domain name. Took me 5 minutes from download to serving html.

Conclusion:
my network infrastructure is just fine. Port 80 is forwarding just fine.

So the ball is squarely in the lighttpd court now. I really need the 
collective Rails braintrust on this one folks.

What is going on with rails+lighttpd in production mode people?

-Doug

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