Configure a VirtualHost for Rails Apps with Apache+Passenger on subdomain

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Hi :)

I followed some tutos and did a search on my issue on google, but no answer found worked for me. I hope you will be able to help me. Here is my configuration :

First, I have installed a LAMP for my PHP projects, so apache2 and mysql are correctly installed. I work in the folder : /home/ME/www (where I put my projects) And then, I linked with a symlink my folder /var/www eg: ln -s /home/pixy/www/project1 /var/www/project1

And I have correctly added a vhost (in sites-available, and a2ensite…) This PHP project correctly works on my subdomain : project1.pixy-media.com (don’t try, project1 is fake for the example ^^)

I also would like to run my Rails (4) applications, so I followed the tuto on Digital Ocean to install passenger with apache2. I think the compilation succeed, I had no problem (I think…) I also put the three lines given at the end of the install at the end of my apache2.conf file

Then I put a new project on my workspace : /home/pixy/www/blog

I want to access to this application with a vhost, with the subdomain : blog.pixy-media.com

I tried a lot of configurations, but no one worked =( I tried to :

symlink /home/pixy/www/blog /var/www/blog and then configure my DocumentRoot to this path : /var/www/blog
No symlink, and directly put the DocumentRoot at /home…

And others but I don’t remember

I pastebin you my actual configurations :

My default vhost : http://pastebin.com/2n7F9mfb
My blog vhost : http://pastebin.com/K3p0WztW

I linked as symlink : /home/pixy/www/blog /var/www/rails/blog

You can try, it doesn’t work… What is wrong/missing with this config ? Do I have to a2ensite the config ? (I think I did it) Do I have to put the PassengerAppRoot ?

I work with ruby 2 and rails 4

If you have any question on my config I forgot to tell here ask me.

Many thanks in advance for your help ! :)

Kamal Nasser · Answer

Great! Glad it worked! :]

g.pierrealexis · Answer

PS : You were right :


chgrp -R www-data /home/pixy/www
chmod -R g+r /home/pixy/www

Is the right thing to do, thaks again :)

Kamal Nasser · Answer

Ah, sweet! Glad it works now! :]

g.pierrealexis · Answer

No =(

I don’t know why, but with this config :
http://pastebin.com/3PUWcEae

It works !! The error seemed to be

PassengerAppRoot /home/pixy/www

I removed the line

I’m pretty sure I tried without before…
But it now works :)

Maybe it can help someone one day !

Thank you for you help =)

Kamal Nasser · Answer

I believe apache runs as www-data by default so you will have to allow www-data to read your home dir/website’s files.

chgrp -R www-data /home/pixy/www

chmod -R g+r /home/pixy/www

Let me know if that fixes it.

g.pierrealexis · Answer

With this configuration :
http://pastebin.com/NJV4EbWw

I have the error :


[Tue Sep 10 19:17:04 2013] [error] [client 81.220.167.190] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /home/pixy/www/blog/public/

“You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

With this one :
http://pastebin.com/6JxPkqcz

No error, I just see my directory…
You can check here :
http://blog.pixy-media.com/

Kamal Nasser · Answer

Check apache’s error logs for errors:

tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

Do you see anything?

g.pierrealexis · Answer

And in my rails folder :

root@pixy :/var/www/rails# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 07:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 07:00 …
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 10 07:11 blog -> /home/pixy/www/blog

g.pierrealexis · Answer

root@pixy :/var/www# ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 07:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep 8 19:39 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 177 Sep 8 19:39 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 07:11 rails

pablo · Answer

First, let’s make sure you’re not having permissions problems.

In your /var/www directory, what’s the output of ls -la?

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Configure a VirtualHost for Rails Apps with Apache+Passenger on subdomain