I been working on this problem for a while and so far haven't been able to solve this. Everything appears to have installed correctly and I double checked everything. Even going so far as to create a detailed Rails deployment plan. So far everything has installed successfully but I can't seem to get my rails website to actually do what it is supposed to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want this website to work so badly and it is frustrating to me that the deployment process is hitting a wall. I might be missing something but I believe this is a complete list of tasks that I ran. This is my website that should be displaying the homepage with a bat on it but isn't http://162.243.59.103/ Here are the tasks I ran to get rails ready. PS: yes Rails is installed. Step 1 Rails ready wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/joshfng/railsready/master/railsready.sh && bash railsready.sh RVM install(option 2) Step 2 Install Ruby rvm install 1.9.3 rvm use --default 1.9.3 Step 3 Install Rails gem install rails -v=3.2.14 Step 4 Install git apt-get install git Step 5 Install Rails/Ruby Packages apt-get install nodejs gem install execjs Step 6 Install prequisites for passenger apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev Steps 7 setup passenger gem install passenger apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger passenger-install-apache2-module Step 8 expand swap space sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=1024 sudo mkswap /swap sudo swapon /swap Step 9 rerun passenger install command passenger-install-apache2-module Step 10 Apache config sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf LoadModule passenger_module /home/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /home/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12 PassengerRuby /home/username/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby Step 11 Restart Apache sudo service apache2 restart --Fails here--- Step 12 Create enable site cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ cp 000-default duelingpets.net sudo nano duelingpets.net PassengerRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p484/ruby ServerAdmin webmaster@duelingpets.net ServerName duelingpets.net DocumentRoot /var/www/duelingpets.net/public AllowOverride None Options -MultiViews Step 13 Restart Apache again sudo service apache2 restart ---------Fails again---- Step 14 Removed default ruby from config mkdir /var/www/duelingpets.net LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484/gems/passenger-$ PassengerRoot /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p484/gems/passenger-4.0.36 # PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p484/ruby Step 15 Restart apache again sudo service apache2 restart Step 16 Configure sites-available for duelingpets.net cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/duelingpets.net cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ nano duelingpets.net ServerAdmin webmaster@duelingpets.net ServerName duelingpets.net ServerAlias www.duelingpets.net DocumentRoot /var/www/duelingpets.net/public or ServerName www.yourhost.com # !!! Be sure to point DocumentRoot to 'public'! DocumentRoot /somewhere/public # This relaxes Apache security settings. AllowOverride all # MultiViews must be turned off. Options -MultiViews Step 17 Restart Apache sudo service apache2 restart Step 18 Enable site sudo a2ensite your_app_name sudo a2ensite duelingpets.net ----Fails---- Step 19 Remove file from site-enabled cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled rm duelingpets.net Step 20 Enable site trial 2 sudo a2ensite duelingpets.net Step 21 Reload Apache service apache2 reload Step 22 Turn on passenger sudo a2enmod passenger Step 23 Reload Apache 2 service apache2 reload