Rails - Jul 2006 - ROR - Apache - FastCGI / Can''t see stylesheets or javascript

Folks ...

I have been porting my app from dev environment on Webrick to Apache 
with FastCGI.  I have the app responding and pulling up the data, but it 
is ignoring the "images", "stylesheets",
"javascripts" directories
located in the public directory.

I''m running Apache under Suse Linux 9.x.  Here is the information that
I
have in my vhosts.conf file:

   #
   # VirtualHost template:
   # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
   # The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
   # server name.
   #
   <VirtualHost *:80>

       ServerAdmin nobody@nobody.com
       ServerName www.spro.com
       ServerSignature On

       DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/www.spro.com/public/

       ErrorLog /log/www.spro.com-error_log
       CustomLog /log/www.spro-access_log combined

       HostnameLookups Off
       UseCanonicalName Off

       <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
       FastCgiServer \
        /srv/www/vhosts/www.spro.com/public/dispatch.fcgi \
        -initial-env RAILS_ENV=development -processes 10 \
        -idle-timeout 120
       </IfModule>

       <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
       UserDir public_html
           Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf
       </IfModule>

       <Directory /srv/www/vhosts/www.spro.com/public/>
       Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
           AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
           AllowOverride All
           Order allow,deny
           Allow from all
       </Directory>

   </VirtualHost>

This is my first attempt at bringing a RoR application up under Apache2 
utilizing FastCGI.  It is my understanding that giving the full path 
name in both DocumentRoot and Directory definitions should allow RoR to 
find the stylesheets.  If I load up Webrick instead of Apache, the 
system works perfectly - I just need to figure this out.

Thanks in advance ...

DC

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DC wrote:
> Folks ...
> 
> I have been porting my app from dev environment on Webrick to Apache 
> with FastCGI.  I have the app responding and pulling up the data, but it 
> is ignoring the "images", "stylesheets",
"javascripts" directories
> located in the public directory.
Could it be as simple as permissions ?  Is www-data (or whoever Apache 
runs as) allowed to read from that dir and subdirs ?

A.

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Alan Francis wrote:
> 
> Could it be as simple as permissions ?  Is www-data (or whoever Apache 
> runs as) allowed to read from that dir and subdirs ?
> 
> A.
Alan ...

All directories from Public on down have the same permissions "WWWRUN"
as user and "WWW" as group.

DC

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Are you relying on the .htaccess file generated by rails? If so, you
need to ensure that
<Directory /path/to/public>
AllowOverride FileInfo
Options FollowSymlinks
</Directory>

.. is set in httpd.conf (or whatever your distro calls that file).

And always remember the apache error log.

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