I’ve been installing passenger on my development PC so that I can debug an issue that is only apparent in production (it’s due to the app being hosted in a sub-uri). I don’t tend to use passenger much myself, as in most of the environments I’ve worked in there has either already been a server set up, or there is a sys-admin who needs to manage the server set up. However, doing this myself has been really useful and I’ve learnt a lot from doing it. (Another “why haven’t I worked out all this before” moment).<\/p>\n
The main problem I had was that I kept having to point RackBaseURI at the public folder in my app, which left ‘\/public’ in the app’s url. So instead of ‘\/mysite’, I was getting ‘\/mysite\/public’. <\/p>\n
As is so often the case once you know the solution, the answer was very simple. I had overlooked the significance of a single line in the passenger documentation<\/a>:<\/p>\n That sets up a symlink to the public folder of your app. It also means that RackBaseURI is not pointing at the real folder where the code is, but to a symlink in your web root. Now I realise the significance of this line in the docs, it is obvious to me that this a better way to arrange things. <\/p>\n With the the symlink in place everything started working properly.<\/p>\n One thing that playing with this has taught me is that the passenger documentation is very good. A couple of times google searches led me to outdated methods that no longer worked with the version of passenger I was using. Each time the solution was found within the passenger docs. <\/p>\n The problem is that the apache guide<\/a> is a very long document. However, my experience was that it was much more fruitful to search the passenger documention page for keywords, than to google for the solution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been installing passenger on my development PC so that I can debug an issue that is only apparent in production (it’s due to the app being hosted in a sub-uri). I don’t tend to use passenger much myself, as … Continue reading