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Enrique Moreno Tent
Enrique Moreno Tent

Reputation: 25237

Cant deploy Passenger with Nginx

I have been following this tutorial to deploy Phusion Passenger with Nginx, and after finishing, I still get an error when I open the URL with the IP address (http://123.123.123.123)

When I watch the error.log from nginx, I see this:

http://pastie.org/pastes/10358955/text?key=s16vrhu2cofrian1hluwa

From that log, i noticed this:

Warning: compilation didn't succeed. To learn why, read this file: App 15789 stderr: /tmp/passenger_native_support-1g8vwu3.log

So this is the output of that file:

http://pastie.org/pastes/10358951/text

What is the problem here? Why is my rails app not working?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 533

Answers (2)

Hongli
Hongli

Reputation: 18924

Actually, the problem is not so much the lack of a Javascript runtime. While the error message does mention "Could not find a JavaScript runtime", the actual problem is that your PATH environment variable isn't set correctly.

The indicator is in these two seemingly unimportant error messages:

App 15789 stderr: sh: 1: 
App 15789 stderr: env: not found

env is a common Unix command, located in /usr/bin. Node.js, as well as pretty much everything else, is also located in /usr/bin. If the system cannot find env then that means your PATH environment variable isn't set correctly.

The reason why it isn't set correctly, is most likely because Nginx nuked your environment variables. Try adding this to your Nginx config file:

# Don't nuke PATH; preserve original value.
env PATH;

Upvotes: 6

j-dexx
j-dexx

Reputation: 10406

You need to install a javascript runtime. Simplest solution is to add therubyracer to your Gemfile.

# See https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby

It also seems you need to install either curl or wget based on the log.

Upvotes: 0

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