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Mani
Mani

Reputation: 2563

Point Phusion passenger to home directory

I'm deploying a Rails application on inmotion hosting at coolmappdb.com - and when I get there it says 

Could not spawn process for application /home/username/public_html/coolmappdb.com: An error occurred while starting up the preloader.
<p>If that didn't work, then maybe the problem is that your gems are installed to <code>/home/username/.rvm/gems</code>, while at the same time you set <code>PassengerRuby</code> (Apache) or <code>passenger_ruby</code> (Nginx) to <code>/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/wrappers/ruby</code>. Because of the latter, RVM does not load gems from the home directory.</p>

The error message is clear. It is saying that my Phusion Passenger is pointed at the wrong location. How can I make it work at the right location?

UPDATES:

<VirtualHost 170.239.250.29:80>
  ServerName coolmappdb.com
  ServerAlias www.coolmappdb.com
  DocumentRoot /home/coolma7/public_html
  PassengerRuby /home/coolma7/.rvm/gems
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  UseCanonicalName Off
  CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/coolmappdb.com combined
  <IfModule log_config_module>
    <IfModule logio_module>
      CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/coolmappdb.com-bytes_log "%{%s}t %I .\n%{%s}t %O ."
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 386

Answers (1)

Edvaldo Silva de Almeida Jr
Edvaldo Silva de Almeida Jr

Reputation: 3723

I visited the application at http://coolmappdb.com/ and there you find the reason of your problem.

As I said in my first comment to your question, you have a problem with permissions, as it says in you Phusion error page:

*** ERROR ***: Cannot execute /home/coolma7/.rvm/gems: Permission denied (13)

It happens that you have

Ruby interpreter command = /home/coolma7/.rvm/gems

and in the "Environment variables" section you may find the following

MY_RUBY_HOME=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1

It happens that your Ruby interpreter can't run anything in a system folder like /usr/local.

To fix this you have to set, inside your Apache's VirtualServer the following

PassengerRuby "/home/coolma7/.rvm/gems"

This will make your Ruby interpreter search for the gems in the correct place, where you have all permissions needed.

Make sure your Apache is running as a user with permissions to execute inside /home/coolma7, setting User and Group correctly at Apache's configuration file.

Finally, the fact that you have gems at /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1 means the you are using a system Ruby. This is not recommended. Try to stick to RVM when installing Ruby versions and you'll have less problems. See this. And maybe this post may help you too.

Upvotes: 1

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