PassengerEnabled off and serving index.php automatically

[sampoo]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Vanilla as a forum software to integrate with my
Rails project. To do this, i placed the vanilla files in /var/www/
vanilla, which is symlinked to public/forums. I adapted the Vanilla
configuration files accordingly so that the URL'ing would be properly
done.

When accessing /forums/index.php, everything seems to be fine, working
nicely, but when I try to access /forums, I get "Application error -
Rails application failed to start properly".
I guessed that by default Apache couldn't figure out which file to
serve as default, so I added a DirectoryIndex line to the
configuration, but same error after reloading apache.

Currently my configuration looks like this (real domain/paths
confuscated):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName domain.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/rails/public

<Directory /path/to/rails/public/forums/>
PassengerEnabled off
AllowOverride all
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

[Hongli Lai]

You might want to give <Location> a try as well.

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[sampoo]

I tried and get a 404 (custom rails) page...

On 29 jun, 14:31, Hongli Lai <hon...@phusion.nl> wrote:

> E-mail: i...@phusion.nl

[sampoo]

Anyone has an idea why?

[Mark Woods]

> Anyone has an idea why?

Just a wild guess, but does /forums/ work (rather than /forums)?

Have you tried setting the Directory without the trailing slash?

Have you tried to running the forums app from a real directory rather
than a symlink, just to see if the symlink causing a problem?

Mark

[Zac Zheng]

I am having the exact probem as sampoo. Setting PassengerEnabled off
to a location/directory works fine, but it does not default to
index.php. Setting DirectoryIndex to indexphp. has no affect.

I have updated to passenger-2.2.4, running on Ubuntu with Apache 2.2.6

Here's the forum snippet of my apache config:

<Location /forum>
DirectoryIndex index.php
PassengerEnabled off
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>

Mark, I have tried your suggestions without any luck.

Is DirectoryIndex working with PassengerOff?

Any other way around this?

Much thanks
Zac

[sampoo]

The application works fine, but not when hosted from 'within the Rails
application'; it works when i change the url to /forums/index.php
instead of forums/, i guess the problem has it's origin at Apache not
knowing which file to load...