Redmine installation error - invalid Ruby on Rails application root

**sipickles** · June 7th, 2011

Hello,

I am trying to install redmine onto 10.04, as detailed here

I used the passenger method, and all seemed to go very smoothly during setup.

Unfortunately when I goto the redmine page I get a Passenger page which says:

Code:

Cannot start Ruby on Rails application
The directory "/var/www" does not appear to be a valid Ruby on Rails application root.

Apache setup isnt my strong point so any help gratefully received.

Heres my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/redmine/>
                RailsBaseURI /redmine
                PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on
        </Directory>

        ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
        <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
                AllowOverride None
                Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Thanks

Si

**Joespower** · August 4th, 2011

I'm having the same issues using the same website (among others) as reference. The documentation here doesn't appear to be current/complete. If someone has gotten this to work, can you help a brotha out?

**tomsdongle** · August 4th, 2011

having the same issue here - receiving exactly the same error.

To confirm,

do you change the permissions of passenger.conf to www-data?

also, is my passenger.conf correct:

HTML Code:

<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
PassengerDefaultUser www-data
 PassengerRoot /usr
  PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
</IfModule>

**maniat1k** · October 1st, 2011

Hi!
I'm trying to get this working on Ubuntu 11.04. And I'm also having troubles with passenger. But I'm not having the same error as the other..

the error

Code:

service apache2 restart
Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/redmine:
Invalid command 'PassengerDefaultUser', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!

the apache log

Code:

[Fri Sep 30 10:42:16 2011] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: The Passenger spawn server script, '/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9/lib/phusion_passenger/passenger-spawn-server', does not exist. Please check whether the 'PassengerRoot' option is specified correctly.

vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

Code:

<IfModule mod_passenger.c>
  PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.9
  PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  PassengerDefaultUser www-data

</IfModule>

vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (at the bottom of the con file)

Code:

Include /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/redmine (instead of default)

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName redmine

    DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public

    PassengerDefaultUser www-data
    RailsEnv production
    RailsBaseURI /redmine
    SetEnv X_DEBIAN_SITEID "default"

    <Directory /var/www/redmine/public>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I used this manual http://www.x2on.de/2011/04/23/tutori...-ubuntu-11-04/ It has details but you can follow it.

Running the test works.
you go to cd /var/www/redmine
and by doing

Code:

ruby script/server webrick -e production

In the browser I put http://redmine:3000 and works

Hopefully someone can lend us a hand.

**maniat1k** · October 6th, 2011

@sipickles It's looks like your sites-available is wrong.. look at mine or look the example I used to create mine... try that and show us your progress. Let's try help each other ¿ok?