Sinatra + Passenger + Apache

[joe]

Trying to setup a Sinatra app to work with Passenger + Apache and I'm
having some issues.

I've searched around and found several solutions which all look
similar, but none of them seem to be working..

My app structure is this:
app/
- lib/
- public/
- tmp/
-- restart.txt
- config.ru
- app.rb

This is all that's in my app.rb file:
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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

get '/' do
"Hello there"
end
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This is my config.ru file (straight from the passenger docs):
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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

root_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)

set :environment, ENV['RACK_ENV'].to_sym
set :root, root_dir
set :app_file, File.join(root_dir, 'app.rb')
disable :run

run Sinatra::Application
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My httpd.conf contains:
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LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/
passenger-2.2.7/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.7
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8

# Sinatra host
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost:8080
DocumentRoot /var/www/app/public
RackBaseURI /app
</VirtualHost>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note: /var/www/app is a sym link of /home/user/code/app. Don't know
if it matters or not, but that's how I'd like it setup.

So what am I missing here?

[Damian Janowski]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, joe <ehas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Trying to setup a Sinatra app to work with Passenger + Apache and I'm
> having some issues.
>

> [...]

>
> Note:  /var/www/app is a sym link of /home/user/code/app.  Don't know
> if it matters or not, but that's how I'd like it setup.
>
> So what am I missing here?

Unicorn http://unicorn.bogomips.org :-)

Maybe you need to enable FollowSymLinks or something like that in Apache?

[joe]

On Nov 30, 1:04 pm, Damian Janowski <damian.janow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, joe <ehass...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe you need to enable FollowSymLinks or something like that in Apache?

Adding something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost:8080
DocumentRoot /var/www/app/public
RackBaseURI /app

<Directory /var/www/app/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Doesn't seem to do it either; I just keep getting 404 errors.

[MilesTogoe]

not entirely sure but we run Sinatra just fine with Passenger using Ruby
1.9.1 - for this you need to change File.dirname(..) to
Pathname(...).dirname and File.join(..) to root_dir.join(..) You might
want to check your set :environment - we just use simple :production or
:development

[joe]

I'm currently using ruby 1.8.7.

I also just changed my config.ru to hardly contain anything:

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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

set :environment, :development
require 'app'
run Sinatra::Application
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I also changed my vhost block to be:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost:8080
DocumentRoot /var/www/app/public

ErrorLog /var/www/app/log/sinatra_error_log
CustomLog /var/www/app/log/sinatra_access_log common
<Directory /var/www/app/public>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Only new thing that happened was the error log files were generated in
the new log/ dir I just created. Still just getting 404 errors.

[joe]

The apache error.log file has been spitting out a lot of this:

[Mon Nov 30 13:53:16 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.2] Attempt to serve
directory: /var/www/app/
[Mon Nov 30 14:03:59 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.2] Attempt to serve
directory: /var/www/app/
[Mon Nov 30 14:09:34 2009] [error] [client 10.0.2.2] Attempt to serve
directory: /var/www/app/

Should it be attempting to go there or should it be trying to visit /
var/www/app/public?

[Christoph Jasinski]

Hi,

try to change your config.ru to this

****************config.ru*****************

# require 'rubygems'

# require 'sinatra'

require 'app.rb'

.

.

.

.

**********************

What is your sinatra version?

Cheers

Chris

[joe]

Well, I think I got it to work. I think I actually just messed up the
symlink. First I got things to work with just going to localhost:8080
and finally got everything to work with a URI (localhost:8080/app).

I indeed need to have require 'app.rb' in my config.ru file or I would
just end up at a blank page.

My config.ru is now looking like this:
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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'app.rb'

root_dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)

set :environment, :development

set :root, root_dir
set :app_file, File.join(root_dir, 'app.rb')
disable :run

run Sinatra::Application
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My vhost block is now:

------------------------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost:8080
DocumentRoot /var/www

ErrorLog /home/user/code/app/log/sinatra_error_log
CustomLog /home/user/code/app/log/sinatra_access_log common
<Directory /var/www>
RackBaseURI /app

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
------------------------------------------------------------

Things seem to be working now. Phew. Thanks everyone for your input.

[Mathias Stjernström]

Hi Joe!

Try this config.ru:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

set :environment, ENV['RACK_ENV'].to_sym

set :app_file, 'app.rb'
disable :run

require 'app'

run Sinatra::Application

> My httpd.conf contains:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>
> # Sinatra host
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName localhost:8080
> DocumentRoot /var/www/app/public
> RackBaseURI /app
> </VirtualHost>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

Try changing your DocumentRoot to /var/www

In this case passenger tries to find a symlink inside /var/www that is
named app and points to your public folder.

> Note: /var/www/app is a sym link of /home/user/code/app. Don't know
> if it matters or not, but that's how I'd like it setup.

Change your symlink to point to the public folder

ln -s /home/user/code/app/public /var/www/app

Note that when using sinatra modular design or when using RackBaseURI
you also get a root path which is empty.

get '' do
"Hello roootlessss"
end

This can be fixed with a little before filter:

before do
request.env['PATH_INFO'] = '/' if request.env['PATH_INFO'] == ''
end

or you can do this:

before do
request.env['PATH_INFO'].gsub!(/\/$/, '')
end

This removes trailing / from all requests and you can use only a "get
'' do" for root.

Cheers

Mathias Stjernstrom
-------------------------------------------
http://www.pastbedti.me/

[joe]

On Nov 30, 2:48 pm, Mathias Stjernström <math...@globalinn.com> wrote:
>
> Note that when using sinatra modular design or when using RackBaseURI  
> you also get a root path which is empty.
>
> get '' do
>    "Hello roootlessss"
> end
>
> This can be fixed with a little before filter:
>
> before do
>    request.env['PATH_INFO'] = '/' if request.env['PATH_INFO'] == ''
> end
>
> or you can do this:
>
> before do
>    request.env['PATH_INFO'].gsub!(/\/$/, '')
> end
>
> This removes trailing / from all requests and you can use only a "get  
> '' do" for root.

How do you even access the rootless handler? I just get thrown to '/'
and I'm using a URI.

I also have..

before do
request.env['PATH_INFO'] = '/' if request.env['PATH_INFO'] == ''
end

in my app.rb file.

[Mathias Stjernström]

> How do you even access the rootless handler? I just get thrown to '/'
> and I'm using a URI.
>
> I also have..
> before do
> request.env['PATH_INFO'] = '/' if request.env['PATH_INFO'] == ''
> end
>
> in my app.rb file.

If you have that before block you'll rewrite "" to "/".