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swaroopsm
swaroopsm

Reputation: 1399

Rails deployment using Phusion Passenger on Bluehost

I am trying to deploy a rails application on Bluehost using passenger and I have been failing all the time. I installed the passenger gem using:

gem install passenger

And also ran:

passenger-install-apache2-module

And ran all my db migrations and also did a asset precompile

The problem is, I am trying to host it on a sub-domain, so I did the following steps:

  1. Created a sub-domain.
  2. Created a sym link from rails app pointing to the sub-domain.
  3. Added the following lines to my .htaccess:

PassengerEnabled On

PassengerAppRoot /home/username/rails_apps/my_app

And when I navigate to my domain in the browser it gives me:

Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [email protected]

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks in advance :)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1557

Answers (3)

JanuskaE
JanuskaE

Reputation: 1304

Check Bluehost on what needs to be in the .htaccess file. Mine looks like this:

<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
Options -MultiViews
PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
#Set this to whatever environment you'll be running in
RailsEnv production
RackBaseURI /home/rails_apps/my_app
SetEnv GEM_HOME /home/<my_bluehost_username>/ruby/gems
</IfModule>

You should use this command to find your ruby gems location:

gem env

Upvotes: 1

vikas
vikas

Reputation: 678

I also tried doing the same thing, but was unsuccessful, but when I dig a bit deep I figured out following:

  • The apache server in Bluehost uses passenger in different path. Hence our installation would not affect it.

  • Passenger3.x of Bluehost is using ruby 1.8 as default one, hence the ruby version cannot be changed.

Upvotes: 1

mandar.gokhale
mandar.gokhale

Reputation: 1875

Hey have you checked user & group in your httpd conf file? make sure that if you have user/group www-data in httpd conf then your project directories should have same owner & group.

Upvotes: 1

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