Rails - Aug 2006 - Dreamhost FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) errors

Sorry to trouble the list with another Dreamhost problem, but looking 
through the archives I see nothing that can solve my problem.

I have installed my app as per
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Quick_Start_Guide_August_2006

with a symbolic link from my_domain.tld in ~/ to 
~/apps/residence/public/

I get the Rails welcome screen. I have uploaded my app directory etc, 
and populated my database. If I start Webrick in production mode on 
dreamhost I can access the website fine, and everything seems to work.

I have a dispatch.fcgi file that reads :

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
require ''fcgi_handler''

class RailsFCGIHandler
 private
   def frao_handler(signal)
     dispatcher_log :info, "asked to terminate immediately"
     dispatcher_log :info, "frao handler working its magic!"
     restart_handler(signal)
   end
   alias_method :exit_now_handler, :frao_handler
 end

RailsFCGIHandler.process!

and a line in public/.htacces that reads:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

Unfortunately I cannot access my app. After a couple of minutes I get a 
Application error
Rails application failed to start properly

and

[Wed Aug 16 03:01:05 2006] [error] [client 88.110.215.43] FastCGI: comm 
with (dynamic) server
"/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/dispatch.fcgi"
aborted: (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
[Wed Aug 16 03:01:05 2006] [error] [client 88.110.215.43] FastCGI: 
incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server 
"/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/dispatch.fcgi"

in my error.log in the ~/logs/ directory.

Changing the shebang in dispatch.* doesn''t seem to make a difference. 
Does anybody have any ideas ?

Kind regards,

Chris






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I''m in the exact same boat!  Did you ever figure it out?

On 8/16/06, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Sorry to trouble the list with another Dreamhost problem, but looking
> through the archives I see nothing that can solve my problem.
>
> I have installed my app as per
>
>
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Quick_Start_Guide_August_2006
>
> with a symbolic link from my_domain.tld in ~/ to
> ~/apps/residence/public/
>
> I get the Rails welcome screen. I have uploaded my app directory etc,
> and populated my database. If I start Webrick in production mode on
> dreamhost I can access the website fine, and everything seems to work.
>
> I have a dispatch.fcgi file that reads :
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
> require ''fcgi_handler''
>
> class RailsFCGIHandler
> private
>    def frao_handler(signal)
>      dispatcher_log :info, "asked to terminate immediately"
>      dispatcher_log :info, "frao handler working its magic!"
>      restart_handler(signal)
>    end
>    alias_method :exit_now_handler, :frao_handler
> end
>
> RailsFCGIHandler.process!
>
> and a line in public/.htacces that reads:
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
>
> Unfortunately I cannot access my app. After a couple of minutes I get a
> Application error
> Rails application failed to start properly
>
> and
>
> [Wed Aug 16 03:01:05 2006] [error] [client 88.110.215.43] FastCGI: comm
> with (dynamic) server
"/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/dispatch.fcgi"
> aborted: (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
> [Wed Aug 16 03:01:05 2006] [error] [client 88.110.215.43] FastCGI:
> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/dispatch.fcgi"
>
> in my error.log in the ~/logs/ directory.
>
> Changing the shebang in dispatch.* doesn''t seem to make a
difference.
> Does anybody have any ideas ?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Gene Horodecki wrote:
> I''m in the exact same boat!  Did you ever figure it out?
Well, in the end I managed to get something working by not symlinking 
my-domain.tld in ~/ to another directory where my app is installed. 
Rather run:
 $ rails my-domain.tld   in ~/

and follow the rest of the wiki page from there.

Now I am having all kinds of problems with getting rails to recognise 
that gems are installed. All my controllers that use features from other 
gems (I''ve tried SimpleSearch and Ferret) give me
  uninitialized constant

errors in the production.log.  It''s quite a frustrating experience !
I''d
appreciate any pointers,

Chris


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make sure your .profile (or whatever your shell file is) has your paths for
locally install gems. As for the fcgi errors i have found that this
typically happens when the tmp/ and log/ folders are not available for rails
to write into. This happens when I launch a new app from svn as i put
svn:ignore on the folders. another thing that has helped is forcing GC to
happen in your dispatch.fcgi. I find 50 requests works well. Hope this helps

On 8/17/06, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Gene Horodecki wrote:
> > I''m in the exact same boat!  Did you ever figure it out?
>
> Well, in the end I managed to get something working by not symlinking
> my-domain.tld in ~/ to another directory where my app is installed.
> Rather run:
> $ rails my-domain.tld   in ~/
>
> and follow the rest of the wiki page from there.
>
> Now I am having all kinds of problems with getting rails to recognise
> that gems are installed. All my controllers that use features from other
> gems (I''ve tried SimpleSearch and Ferret) give me
>   uninitialized constant
>
> errors in the production.log.  It''s quite a frustrating experience
! I''d
> appreciate any pointers,
>
> Chris
>
>
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I suggest you run dispatch.fcgi from the command line - you''ll  
generally get more info that way

cheers,J

On 17-Aug-06, at 2:08 PM, J "Brien" wrote:
> make sure your .profile (or whatever your shell file is) has your  
> paths for locally install gems. As for the fcgi errors i have found  
> that this typically happens when the tmp/ and log/ folders are not  
> available for rails to write into. This happens when I launch a new  
> app from svn as i put svn:ignore on the folders. another thing that  
> has helped is forcing GC to happen in your dispatch.fcgi. I find 50  
> requests works well. Hope this helps
>
> On 8/17/06, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@gmail.com > wrote:
> Gene Horodecki wrote:
> > I''m in the exact same boat!  Did you ever figure it out?
>
> Well, in the end I managed to get something working by not symlinking
> my-domain.tld in ~/ to another directory where my app is installed.
> Rather run:
> $ rails my-domain.tld   in ~/
>
> and follow the rest of the wiki page from there.
>
> Now I am having all kinds of problems with getting rails to recognise
> that gems are installed. All my controllers that use features from  
> other
> gems (I''ve tried SimpleSearch and Ferret) give me
>   uninitialized constant
>
> errors in the production.log.  It''s quite a frustrating  
> experience ! I''d
> appreciate any pointers,
>
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
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>
>
>
> -- 
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> hybridindie@gmail.com
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Jodi Showers wrote:
> I suggest you run dispatch.fcgi from the command line - you''ll
> generally get more info that way
> 
> cheers,J
Thanks to both of you for your useful insights . At the moment things 
seem to be working ok, although I''ve had to abandon ferret for the time
being :( The GC suggestion is something I haven''t tried, perhaps that 
may help .

Local development with Mongrel is so much nicer ! There''s a support 
request open for dreamhost users to vote for Mongrel support - if anyone 
is interested you can vote here :

https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=home.sugg&category=Software%20Installations&search=mongrel

regards,

Chris

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