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Installation Issues on Dreamhost

Added by Andrew Hamilton about 16 years ago

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I've installed Redmine on my DreamHost shared hosting account using the instructions here: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall

Everything seemed to go well except I can't access the site unless I run 'ruby script/server -e production' to load up WEBrick, and then I can only access the site using port 3000, http://projects.mydomain.tld:3000. If I visit the installation with and without WEBrick running at http://projects.mydomain.tld, I get the following error:

Application error
Rails application failed to start properly

The WEBrick process seems to get killed every 5 or 10 minutes on the server, and I received an email from the DreamHost Policy Bot telling me the 'ruby script/server -e production' is against their policies, as they think it is a DoS attack script.

How can I get Redmine to run on my DreamHost account using the standard Apache server, or port 80, without needing to manually load WEBrick?
I know it can be done, as it appears to be working here on DreamHost: http://redmine.sofanaranja.com/

Thanks in advance,

/ Hami


Replies (7)

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Andrew Hamilton about 16 years ago

After talking with DreamHost Support I got it working, I was 90% there.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Ruby_on_Rails#Transferring_an_Existing_Rails_App

I thought some other users getting stuck might find this helpful.
After the installation I needed to do the following steps:

  1. Login into my DreamHost Shell Account
  2. Run ruby redmine
  3. Copy the dispatch.fcgi, dispatch.rb and for completeness dispatch.cgi from redmine/public/ created in the root of your account to the public folder of your actual Redmine installation
  4. Change the permissions of the files you've just copied. chmod 755 public and chmod 755 public/dispatch.*
  5. Got to your Redmine in browser, and all should be working.

/ Hami

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Andrew Hamilton about 16 years ago

Sorry - Step 2 is wrong, it should be:
2. Run rails redmine

/ Hami

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Andrew Hamilton about 16 years ago

To further this, you also need to replace the .htaccess file for the one that rail redmine creates.
The file should look like this:

# General Apache options
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
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 ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

# 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" 

You also need to repeat this whole procedure when you upgrade Redmine.

/ Hami

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Travis Cunningham about 15 years ago

It looks like you have to login to your Dreamhost control panel and make sure you have fastcgi enabled for the domain as well.

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Ilin Tatabitovski over 13 years ago

Paolo Sulprizio wrote:

Probably can be useful:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Redmine

I confirm that this procedure works.

One thing missing is from the "Checkout the Redmine source code" part, before you checkout the source code make sure you delete the "public" folder automatically created by dreamhost.

  1. ssh into your Dreamhost account
  2. cd ~/yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com
  3. rm -rf public
  4. svn checkout

RE: Installation Issues on Dreamhost - Added by Lu Pon about 13 years ago

Redmine is not working well with Dreamhost. It has an issue with a memory limit. So if you want Redmine work, you will pay a VPS on DH.

See this: http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-128886-post-134103.html#pid134103

I continuously get this error (see attachment)

I began to hate DreamHost

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