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Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jun-22 20:30 UTC

[Rails] Again on Apache 2

Hello everybody.

I know, I know, another post about Apache 2, but I have looked a lot on 
the internet and I haven''t found the answer to my problem.

I have a Linux Fedora Core 5 box, with Apache 2.2.2 (compiled and 
installed), Ruby 1.8.4 (compiled and installed), RubyGems 0.8.11 
(compiled and installed) and Rails... I don''t know what version as this
one I haven installed with gem.

This is what I want to achieve.

I have a personal website (www.troccoli.it) which contains HTML only. I 
want to have another website (spagnolo.troccoli.it) where I use Rails. 
Both URL are resolved to the same IP: my Linux box.

I have managed to change httpd.conf to use mod_fcgid as follows

...
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
IPCCommTimeout 40
IPCConnectTimeout 10
...

I have also changed httpd-vhosts.conf (which is include in httpd.conf) 
as follows:

...
NameVirtualHost *

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:*>
    ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
    DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it
    ServerName www.troccoli.it
    ErrorLog logs/troccoli.it-error_log
    CustomLog logs/troccoli.it-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:*>
    ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
    DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo
    ServerName spagnolo.troccoli.it
    ErrorLog logs/spagnolo-error_log
    CustomLog logs/spagnolo-access_log common
    <Location /journal>
        RewriteEngine On
        # Let Apache handle purely static files like images by itself.
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        # Send Everything else to Rails
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
    </Location>
    <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
        # ExecCGI is required for mod_fcgid to work.
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
        # Disable .htaccess files.
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        # This tells mod_fcgid to run the dispatch.fcgi script as a 
FastCGI
        AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
...

Now, while my personal website (www.troccoli.it) works fine, if you go 
to the other one (spagnolo.troccoli.it) instead of the expected "Welcome 
aboard You''re riding the Rails!" I have the content of my
DocumentRoot
directory (which is not a big deal at the moment as I haven''t done 
anything yet). Try it yourself, you should be able to see it yourself.

I know that I could run Apache for www.troccoli.it and WEBBrick for 
spagnolo.troccoli.it because they can run on different ports (and this 
is noather thing I don''t understand, do I have to use port 3000 if I
use
Apache???) but I''d like to have only one web server, possibly Apache.

I am also not sure about the journal directory in the httpd-vhosts.conf. 
I have copied from a how-to post I found, but 
/home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal does not exist. I have 
however tried also with

<Location />
...
<Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo>

but this time I have an error and the log says

[Thu Jun 22 21:26:08 2006] [error] [client 192.168.69.22] Request 
exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable 
configuration error. Use ''LimitInternalRecursion'' to increase
the limit
if necessary. Use ''LogLevel debug'' to get a backtrace.




I am really stuck guys, could you help me please?

Thanks
Giulio

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Michael Greenly

2006-Jun-23 00:06 UTC

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<Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>

should be

<Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal/public>

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Michael Greenly

2006-Jun-23 00:07 UTC

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Michael Greenly wrote:> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
> 
> should be
> 
> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal/public>
ignore that (accidently hit submit to quick )


DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo

should be

DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/public

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Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jun-26 17:19 UTC

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Michael Greenly wrote:> Michael Greenly wrote:
>> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
>> 
>> should be
>> 
>> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal/public>
> 
> ignore that (accidently hit submit to quick )
> 
> 
> DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo
> 
> should be
> 
> DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/public
Thanks Michael, but why should it?

I mean, the public directory does not exist and I don''t want it. I want
my document root to be spagnolo. Also I don''t understand if I should 
still have the <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal> 
or if I should change it to something else. Everything is very unclear 
to me, could you help me please?

Giulio

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Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jun-27 07:59 UTC

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Giulio Troccoli wrote:> Thanks Michael, but why should it?
> 
> I mean, the public directory does not exist and I don''t want it. I
want
> my document root to be spagnolo. Also I don''t understand if I
should
> still have the <Directory
/home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
> or if I should change it to something else. Everything is very unclear 
> to me, could you help me please?
> 
> Giulio
Ok Michael, ignore my last comment.

I didn''t notice that the public directory had been created by Rails. I 
don''t think it did the first time I used Rails (possibly becuase it 
wasn''t the same version).

Anyway, you suggestion solve the puzzle (after I correct a mistype that 
was driven me crazy :-)

Thanks again.

Giulio

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Łukasz Piestrzeniewicz

2006-Jun-27 12:18 UTC

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Michael Greenly wrote:> Michael Greenly wrote:
>> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
>> should be
>> <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal/public>
> ignore that (accidently hit submit to quick )
> DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo
> should be
> DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/public
In addition I would suggest putting rails application in directory 
parallel to your other web sites:

DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/spagnolo.troccoli.it/public

When you put Rails application inside your html directory it''s source 
files are world-visible like this:

http://www.troccoli.it/spagnolo/config/

Cheers,

?ukasz Piestrzeniewicz

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Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jun-27 15:13 UTC

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?ukasz Piestrzeniewicz wrote:> In addition I would suggest putting rails application in directory 
> parallel to your other web sites:
> 
> DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/spagnolo.troccoli.it/public
> 
> When you put Rails application inside your html directory it''s
source
> files are world-visible like this:
> 
> http://www.troccoli.it/spagnolo/config/
> 
Fair enough, thanks, I will do that.

But, actually although I do have the "Welcome aboard" page,
that''s all I
can get.

I have created a table (modes) with mysql

CREATE TABLE `modes` (
  `id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `description` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL DEFAULT '''',
  PRIMARY KEY(`id`)
)
ENGINE = InnoDB;

Then I have generated the controller and the model for it with

ruby script/generate controller Mode
ruby script/generate model Mode

Then I changed the mode_controller.rb as

class ModeController < ApplicationController
        scaffold :mode
end


But, if I go to spagnolo.troccoli.it/mode/new I don''t get what I 
expected but a 404 "The page cannot be found" error.

Any idea why?

Giulio

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Steve Lawrence

2006-Jun-27 17:59 UTC

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Try this in your vhost file:

NameVirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80

#this becomes the default virtual host for clients which do not
#pass the host header properly

<VirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80>
    ServerName www.troccoli.it
    ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
    DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it
    ErrorLog logs/troccoli.it-error_log
    CustomLog logs/troccoli.it-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

# this is only seen by clients who pass the host header spagnolo.troccoli.it
properly
<VirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80>
    ServerName spagnolo.troccoli.it
    ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
    DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal
    ErrorLog logs/spagnolo-error_log
    CustomLog logs/spagnolo-access_log common
    RewriteEngine On
    # Let Apache handle purely static files like images by itself.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    # Send Everything else to Rails
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
    <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
        # ExecCGI is required for mod_fcgid to work.
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
        # Disable .htaccess files.
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        # This tells mod_fcgid to run the dispatch.fcgi script as a FastCGI
        AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jun-27 18:13 UTC

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Steve Lawrence wrote:> Try this in your vhost file:
> 
> NameVirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80
> 
> #this becomes the default virtual host for clients which do not
> #pass the host header properly
> 
> <VirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80>
>     ServerName www.troccoli.it
>     ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
>     DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it
>     ErrorLog logs/troccoli.it-error_log
>     CustomLog logs/troccoli.it-access_log common
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> # this is only seen by clients who pass the host header 
> spagnolo.troccoli.it
> properly
> <VirtualHost 80.41.94.168:80>
>     ServerName spagnolo.troccoli.it
>     ServerAdmin giulio@troccoli.it
>     DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal
>     ErrorLog logs/spagnolo-error_log
>     CustomLog logs/spagnolo-access_log common
>     RewriteEngine On
>     # Let Apache handle purely static files like images by itself.
>     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>     # Send Everything else to Rails
>     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
>     <Directory /home/webmaster/troccoli.it/spagnolo/journal>
>         # ExecCGI is required for mod_fcgid to work.
>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>         # Disable .htaccess files.
>         AllowOverride None
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>         # This tells mod_fcgid to run the dispatch.fcgi script as a 
> FastCGI
>         AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
Basically you want me to take the Rewrite stuff out of the Location 
directive.
I have tried it and now I don''t even have the "Welcome
abroad" page bad
a "Bad Request" page.

Btw, I haven''t used the IP address because I can''t. I
don''t want to have
to log in, change the httpd.conf and restart Apache every time my server 
got disconnected and connects again to the internet. Was it a crucial 
part of your suggestion?

Giulio

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Giulio Troccoli

2006-Jul-03 13:36 UTC

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Because the problem is now different from the original one I have 
created another post.

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/71586#99744

Please, reply to that one from now on.

Giulio

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