Question
secret_key_base missing and nginx restart fails
- Posted June 13, 2015
- NginxRuby on RailsDeploymentUbuntu
I followed this guide: https://gorails.com/deploy/ubuntu/14.04 to set up my application.
Now I have a few errors:
1)When I do service nginx restart, it fails. When I do sudo nginx -t it says everything is fine.
2)When I go to my website, I get Incomplete response received from application.
When I looked into the logs, it says that secret_key_base is missing. However, I have hard coded in shared/config/secrets.yml the secret key so I’m not sure what is going on.
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The first step to debugging the Nginx issue is to check the error logs. You can see the most recent entries with:
By default, Rails project will hard code the
secret_key_basefor the test and development environments inconfig/secrets.ymlThe value for production is stored as theSECRET_KEY_BASEenvironmental variable:Have you hardcoded it for production as well? The first thing I’d double check is what environment the application is starting in. If you are using Unicorn as your application server with an init script to start and stop it, a common practice is to set the
RAILS_ENVin/etc/default/unicornwhich the init script sources.