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Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

Hi @all,

I am a newbie in reference to Redmine. I installed Readmine under Apache 2 (openSuSE10.3). I use the mod_fastcgi module to load the application. Everything is fine but no css is loaded. It means I see the text but no design. Please take a look http://projects.the-green-modeling.de.

Here is my configuration part for the public directory:

<VirtualHost 87.106.80.25:80>
        ServerName   projects.the-green-modeling.de:80
        SuexecUserGroup         green.modeling psacln
        ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/cgi-bin/

        DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/httpdocs/public
        <Directory  /srv/www/vhosts/the-green-modeling.de/subdomains/projects/httpdocs/public>
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
            php_admin_flag engine off
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
            php_admin_flag engine off
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
            AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi
            Options +ExecCGI +Includes +FollowSymLinks
        </IfModule>
            Options -Includes -ExecCGI
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I would be very happy if anyone can help me ;-)

Thanks a lot,
Nico Herbig


Replies (18)

RE: No Design - Added by Martin Herr over 15 years ago

Hi Nico,

I may be wrong but I think this is a misconfiguration of apaches rewrite module. Please post the content of your .htacess file.

-Martin

RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

Here is the .htaccess file content:

# General Apache options
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</IfModule>
Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI

# If you don't want Rails to look in certain directories,
# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won't rewrite certain requests
# 
# Example:
#   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/notrails.*
#   RewriteRule .* - [L]

# Redirect all requests not available on the filesystem to Rails
# By default the cgi dispatcher is used which is very slow
# 
# For better performance replace the dispatcher with the fastcgi one
#
# Example:
#   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
RewriteEngine On

# If your Rails application is accessed via an Alias directive,
# then you MUST also set the RewriteBase in this htaccess file.
#
# Example:
#   Alias /myrailsapp /path/to/myrailsapp/public
#   RewriteBase /myrailsapp

RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

# In case Rails experiences terminal errors
# Instead of displaying this message you can supply a file here which will be rendered instead
# 
# Example:
#   ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application failed to start properly" 

RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland over 15 years ago

If you are using Apache, I would seriously consider using Phusion's Passenger.

No Mongrel's to deal with here.

We recently migrated our Redmine instance from a NGINX / Mongrel Cluster configuration to Passenger and have been very happy so far.

If you do try out passenger, you need to delete your "public/.htaccess" file or you will get no styles like you are seeing here.

RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

So I downloaded and installed passenger with the command gem install passenger. Can you explain me the next steps to run Redmine?

RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland over 15 years ago

Did you watch the RailsCast?

http://www.modrails.com/videos/passenger.mov

The instructions here should be enough to get you started. If not, let me know where you are getting stuck.

RE: No Design - Added by Martin Herr over 15 years ago

@all: Nico is using PLESK and I can't see why using Rails in FastCGI-mode with plesk should be a bad idea. It's slow and there are better (and more complex) solutions but fastcgi with PLESK works out-of-the-box :)

You should check your file permissions because I can't find an error in your .htaccess-file.

RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

So I changed the file permissions to 777 but it didn't work. Do you have any other idea to solve this problem?

RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

Jim Orton: Hi Jim it didn't work with Passenger, too. I see no design. Now, I would like to explain you my steps.

First I downloaded Passenger with the command "gem install passenger". Second I installed Passenger with "passenger-install-apache2-module". The next step was to set up loadmodule and the other paths. I create a new file named "mod_passenger.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.

# Configuration for mod_passenger to deploy ruby on rails applications
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.1
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby

Next, I restarted Apache and saw that Passenger was loaded. I think great and downloaded Redmine with the svn-command "svn export http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk redmine". I used the trunk version because I have installed Rails 2.1.

I copied all files in the "/srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects" folder and edit the "/config/database.yml" file with my settings. It means, I followed the instructions on the Redmine website "http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall".

The next step was to change the file permmissions and delete the .htaccess file in the public folder:

chown -R wwwrun:www *  (set new owner for every file and folder)
chmod -R 755 files log tmp

The last step was to create a new config file to set up a new virtual host. I create a new file named "redmine.conf" and saved this file in the "/etc/apache2/conf.d/" folder. I added the following lines.

# This is the configuration file for Redmine installations

# Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de
<VirtualHost 87.106.80.25:80>
    ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80
    ServerAdmin "webmaster@nico-herbig.de" 
        DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public
</VirtualHost>

Now, I restarted apache again and saw no changes.

I hope this settings can help you to resolve my problem.

Thanks,
Nico

RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland over 15 years ago

It appears to be a permission issue.

The below url should display your CSS file not give a "Access forbidden!" message:

http://projects.the-green-modeling.de/stylesheets/application.css

Try adding the "public" folder to your chmod statement.

chmod -R 755 public

RE: No Design - Added by Nico Herbig over 15 years ago

It works ;-)

I changed the file permissions for the "public"-directory to 755 and modify my "redmine.conf"-file for Apache. Here is the new conf-file.

# Redmine installation for projects.the-green-modeling.de
<VirtualHost 87.106.80.25:80>
        ServerName projects.the-green-modeling.de:80
        ServerAdmin "webmaster@nico-herbig.de" 
        DocumentRoot /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public
        <Directory /srv/redmine/the-green-modeling.de/projects/public>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Thanks to all people that help me to solve this ugly problem.

RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing over 15 years ago

I'm having the same issue, I changed the /var/www/redmine/public directory to 777, but it's still not showing the css.

I followed this pretty closely: http://mugunth.blogspot.com/2008/07/steps-to-deploy-redmine-application-in.html
but got to this point:

NameVirtualHost *

ServerName
ServerAlias

DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

LogLevel warn

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

and didn't know what to do. In it he says something about installing it to etc/www, but there is no /etc/www directory.
What else can I show to see what's up? I can sign in and everything seems to be working okay in that manner.

RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland over 15 years ago

Hi Matt,

Did you delete your "public/.htaccess" file? This would cause you to get no styles to render in your application through Passenger.

- Jim

RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing over 15 years ago

I had read in this post that it might solve the problem. I can't FIND it :), that's the problem! Isn't it supposed to be right in redmine/public? I didn't see it using find in explorer(or what linux explorer is called) or using ls in terminal.

RE: No Design - Added by Jim Mulholland over 15 years ago

.htaccess is a hidden file.

From your terminal, you should be able to see it by doing a

ls -la public/

and delete with

rm public/.htaccess

RE: No Design - Added by Matt Cushing over 15 years ago

Jim, you're awesome. Thanks for helping me find that, it's exactly what was wrong.

RE: No Design - Added by julien aubert about 15 years ago

I am trying to setup Redmine with Passenger, Ubuntu 8.0.4.
Passenger is installed, Redmine is configured. It works in: https://myserver/redmine

In /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/.htaccess I have added:
RewriteBase /redmine

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/myserversite I have:

Alias /redmine /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName ..

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/demo.se.key
DocumentRoot /var/www
SetEnv HTTPS 1
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.trac.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.trac.log combined
&lt;Directory /var/www/redmine-0.8/public/&gt;
SetEnv RAILS_ENV production
Options +FollowSymLinks
order allow,deny
allow from All
&lt;/Directory&gt;

</VirtualHost>

OK all good. But now here you say I should delete .htaccess, I tried deleting it and remove the Alias command, but then trying at https://myserver/redmine-0.8/public
only lists the directory. It doesn't execute any scripts.

So: why do I need to delete .htaccess?
That is, what parts in it is it that is "bad"?
Also, do redmine need both cgi and passenger? well then if we remove .htaccess then I should add cgi execution etc to my site under the directory?

Would be very thankful for an explanation.
Best regards
Julien

RE: No Design - Added by Ве Fio over 14 years ago

Why delete .htaccess? Those .htaccess rules are only for using CGI or FCGI as a Rails server, both very outdated and not recommendable. If you have a real Rails server, as Mongrel or Passenger, you don't need CGI or FCGI. Actually you shouldn't run Passenger and FCGI together. Also, Passenger isn't compatible with custom rewrites.

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