Radiant 1.0 installation

[goodluckpaul]

Hello guys,

I'm really having troubles getting radiant running on my webhost (I'm always getting Error 500). I'm trying it all last week now..
It would be great, if someone could give me instructions!

- I can't install gems myself, but they installed radiant, mysql etc for me.
- I can't set up vhosts but I bought an extra domain, which I can direct to every directory in /home/USER/www
- I can set up symlinks
- "radiant -d mysql DIRECTORY" works fine also "bundle exec rake production db:bootstrap", selecting username, password, etc .

- Now I'm not sure WHERE to install radiant: in /home/USER/ or /home/USER/www
   either way, it doesn't work for me; but wouldn't it be more secure to NOT install it in www but just symlink from there?!


- I think I don't know the right settings for the .htaccess and environment.rb for getting my site running in the browser, how to redirect the domain, and to which directory, etc ....


Please tell me, what I should take care of!
Thanks, Paul

[Jim Gay]

It sounds like this problem is specific to your web server.
You're getting a 500 error, but what does the error say?

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[Sam Whited]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:17 AM, goodluckpaul <goodlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,

Hi

> - Now I'm not sure WHERE to install radiant: in /home/USER/ or
> /home/USER/www
>    either way, it doesn't work for me; but wouldn't it be more secure to NOT
> install it in www but just symlink from there?!
>

No, a soft link won't add any sort of security. The only reason to
symlink from a different directory would be for your convenience, and
if the symlink points to a different drive some servers (apache2) will
refuse to follow it.
As for what path to put it in, that's entirely dependent on your
server configuration. If you're running apache in a standard way, you
can probably dig around in /etc/apache2/ (if you have access) until
you find a config file where the path is set.

>
> - I think I don't know the right settings for the .htaccess and
> environment.rb for getting my site running in the browser, how to redirect
> the domain, and to which directory, etc ....
>

Can you stick those files in a gist or pastebin?

>
> Please tell me, what I should take care of!
> Thanks, Paul

What does the error say, what version of rails, ruby, bundler, etc.
are you using, any other useful information?


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[goodluckpaul]

Thanks for your answers!!!

I already wanted to paste my env data, error logs, etc.
But your comment  "this problem is specific to my web server" kept me trying.

Turns out, I had to add

require 'rubygems'

in my dispatch.fcgi

Everything seems to work better now :-)

I can see the admin login in my browser, but: I can't setup the database now, because of some memory errors.
But even during "gem install radiant", I get this error:

      .
      .
      create  config/environment.rb
      create  config/boot.rb
      create  config/initializers/radiant_config.rb
/usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/remote_specification.rb:16:in `initialize': failed to allocate memory (NoMemoryError)
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:237:in `new'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:237:in `remote_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:235:in `each'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:235:in `remote_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:253:in `each'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:253:in `fetch_all_remote_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:234:in `remote_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:231:in `each'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:231:in `remote_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:165:in `fetch_specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/source.rb:70:in `specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:159:in `index'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:158:in `each'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:158:in `index'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/index.rb:7:in `build'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:157:in `index'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:151:in `resolve'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:90:in `specs'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/definition.rb:85:in `resolve_remotely!'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/installer.rb:43:in `run'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/installer.rb:8:in `install'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/cli.rb:219:in `install'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/task.rb:22:in `send'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/vendor/thor.rb:263:in `dispatch'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/base.rb:386:in `start'
    from /usr/local/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.21/bin/bundle:13
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
      readme  ../../../../INSTALL.md
# Installation and Setup

From within the directory containing your Radiant instance:

1. Decide which database you want to use. SQLite is configured by default and
   the easiest way to get started. If you want to use another database:
   - Enable your preferred database adapter in the Gemfile
   - Run `bundle update`

2. Run `bundle exec rake production db:bootstrap` to initialize the database

Is this something serious or can I ignore it?!

[goodluckpaul]

when I install radiant locally I don't get this error, I guess it's because I cant install gems on my webserver or I can't use too much RAM on my server?!
But does it affect my installation?!

I have another question concerning this:
I'm quite new to ruby and rails, I'm sorry! :-/

I read something about "vendorizing" -- does it mean, I could install radiant + extensions locally on my Mac, then "vendorize" it (--> all needed gems get downloaded) and then I can upload my radiant folder on my server without caring about installed gems there.
Is this possible? How would I do that?

Please be patient with me!!
Thanks!
Paul

[goodluckpaul]

Please tell me the commands I should use to install radiant locally with gems BUT THEN unpack everything in the radiant directory so I could upload it to my webhost without caring about installed extensions or gems there!!

Thanks for your time!!