Cannot spawn application

[J]

Hello,

I am attempting my first use of Passenger for my rails app. It
seems I got everything set up in the installation, but when I run my
application, I get a 500 Internal Server Error. Apparently nothing
gets written to production.log in my app. When I view the apache
error log, I see the following:

Unexpected error in Passenger: Cannot spawn application '/var/
railsapps/newsite': The spawn server has exited unexpectedly.


I have spent quite a bit of time researching this problem and I
could not find a solution. I looked at the Passenger user guide it it
mentions SELinux and running the chcon command. I'm not sure I am
even running SELinux as I see no config files for it nor do I have
chcon in /usr/bin. I even attempted to set PassengerLogLevel to 3 and
I didn't get any additional information.

Any help will be really really appreciated!


THANKS!