Redmine

What OS are you using? I had the same problem yesterday on Debian Lenny + Apache2 + mod_fcgi. After more than three hours of troubleshooting I gave up and replaced mod_fcgi with [[Passenger http://www.modrails.com/]]: it worked like a charm.

I think the problem is related to Rails 2.3.5 and fcgi.

i had the same issue, resolved with passenger :)

Ah, I forgot to mention: I'm running Redmine 0.9.3.

exactly the same problem here.

Just to dump my environment...

Ruby version 1.8.7 (x86_64-linux)
RubyGems version 1.3.5
Rack version 1.0
Rails version 2.3.5
Active Record version 2.3.5
Active Resource version 2.3.5
Action Mailer version 2.3.5
Active Support version 2.3.5
Edge Rails revision unknown
Application root /var/www/someweb.org/t
Environment production
Database adapter postgresql
Database schema version 20100221100219
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Distro: Gentoo amd64
GCC: 4.1.2

Passenger is not an option for me (i need to run it on hosting with plain CGI (and I dont really care about speed)).

I tracked the problem to a point where it seems that cgi object that needs to be passed to rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22 just isn't created somehow. Creating it manually in dispatch.cgi and passing it on, like this:

require 'cgi'
Dispatcher.dispatch(CGI.new)

..moves the application a little further, but it then fails on some other error.

Thanks for anything useful

--mk

Have the same problem.

Could you please confirm this is still a problem with current stable/trunk, provide the redmine version used to test as well as the output of script/about and what rails server you are using? A reliable way to reproduce would make debugging this that much easier too.

(Oh, and to comment on note 5 here, passenger is not a commercial product, they just sell support for it, the software is free)

Sorry, but I am unable to rollback to my previous server configuration (apache+mod_fcgi) :(

Andrea Barni wrote:

Sorry, but I am unable to rollback to my previous server configuration (apache+mod_fcgi) :(

What do you use now?

Felix Schäfer wrote:

What do you use now?

Apache2 plus Passenger and, as I already said, it works like a charm; I've also seen a speed bump after switching to this configuration.

Ok, if no one steps up with an error report on current stable or trunk and a way to reproduce, I'll close this in a few days.

[Fri Jul 09 20:23:35 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111]
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22:in `__send__'
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] :
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] undefined method `env_table' for nil:NilClass
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] (
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] NoMethodError
[Fri Jul 09 20:23:37 2010] [error] [client 172.16.1.111] )

RedHat Enterprise 5 w/ SELinux enabled
Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Passenger 2.2.15
Ruby 1.8.7
gem 1.3.7
gem

using dispatch.cgi.example copied over to dispatch.cgi

actionmailer (2.3.8)
actionpack (2.3.8)
activerecord (2.3.8)
activeresource (2.3.8)
activesupport (2.3.8)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.1.0)
fastthread (1.0.7)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
mongrel (1.1.5)
mongrel_cluster (1.0.5)
passenger (2.2.15)
rack (1.2.1)
rails (2.3.8)
rake (0.8.7)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5)

Steve Gula wrote:

RedHat Enterprise 5 w/ SELinux enabled
Apache/2.2.15 (Unix)
Passenger 2.2.15
Ruby 1.8.7
gem 1.3.7

Are you trying to run redmine with passenger or cgi? Also note that redmine needs rails 2.3.5 and rack 1.0 or 1.0.1 (see RedmineInstall), you can install those with gem install <package> -v=<version> IIRC.

I'm trying to do it through Apache w/ mod_rails(passenger)

So having newer versions of the required gems is bad? ... that's new to me. I'll uninstall 2.3.8 and get 2.3.8 installed.

Steve Gula wrote:

I'm trying to do it through Apache w/ mod_rails(passenger)

Well, from your logs Apache tries to use cgi. Remove the .htaccess in the public directory of redmine.

So having newer versions of the required gems is bad? ... that's new to me. I'll uninstall 2.3.8 and get 2.3.8 installed.

In this case yes, the installation page also specifically says the exact versions are required, not "that version or newer". You don't need to uninstall 2.3.8 though, just install 2.3.5, ruby gems should be able to handle concurrent versions.

I'm willing to believe that most of these issues lie in working within SELinux.. at least almost all of mine did.

That would have been the next stumbling step I would have made you aware of, that passenger needs some extra SELinux settings on most distributions using it. Have you been able to get everything running with passenger?

Yes, thanks.

Does SLES10 use SELinux?

Charles Canato wrote:

I'm truly sorry for reopening this bug, I was more or less following it, but missed these last messages based on the latest stable release.

I still maintain it's some wonky configuration problem which should be discussed in the forums, but we'll keep the already rather long discussion here.

While I don't know what more to try, it's possible that I'll soon try it with fastcgi or fcgi, although I already had no success when trying them with v0.9.4. The Passenger solution is the only one I still didn't try, and althought it might work, I still consider this a bug. Don't know if it's only a Redmine bug, however.

If it really is a bug, it will more likely be one of rails than one of redmine.

Anyway, back to the drawing board. IIRC the causes for this problem boil down to: SELinux misconfiguration or wrong rack version. I'll let you dabble with the SELinux stuff because the only experience I have with it is that I knew how to turn it off, but for the rack version thing, and although script/about tells you it's rack 1.0, have a look at gem list, if possible even as the user the cgi should eventually run as, and see if there are other versions than 1.0. Please also try to grab 1.0.1, not sure what that one fixed, but redmine runs well with it and it might contain a fix for this.

how to tell if it's SELinux:

as root run "setenforce 0" and restart apache/httpd then try to view redmine in your browser ... if it works then it's SELinux .. if it's SELinux the following should work:

(as root)
mv /var/log/audit/audit.log /var/log/audit.log.old
touch /var/log/audit/audit.log
chmod 600 /var/log/audit/audit.log
service auditd restart
setenforce 0
service httpd restart
tail -f /var/log/audit/audit.log
((access redmine through your web browser and make sure your tail shows some output.. if it does, ctrl+c your tail ))
cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M redmine
semodule -i redmine.pp
setenforce 1
service httpd restart
((verify again through your browser that Redmine is functioning.. these steps may have to be performed more than once as you slowly relax your SELinux policy ))

Hi, just installed Redmine 1.0.0 on Fedora 13 with SELinux disabled. I get the same error:

[Tue Aug 17 23:08:55 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] /var/www/globalscalingsoftw\
are-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/public/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib\
/rails/gem_dependency.rb:119:Warning: Gem::Dependency#version_requirements is deprec\
ated and will be removed on or after August 2010.  Use #requirement
[Tue Aug 17 23:08:55 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40]
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems\
/rails-2.3.5/lib/dispatcher.rb:24: warning: already initialized constant Dispatcher
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] /var/www/globalscalingsoftw\
are-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller\
/cgi_process.rb:22:in `__send__'
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] :
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] undefined method `env_table\
' for nil:NilClass
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40]  (
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] NoMethodError
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] )
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] \tfrom /var/www/globalscali\
ngsoftware-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_con\
troller/cgi_process.rb:22:in `dispatch_cgi'
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] \tfrom /var/www/globalscali\
ngsoftware-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_con\
troller/dispatcher.rb:101:in `dispatch_cgi'
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] \tfrom /var/www/globalscali\
ngsoftware-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_con\
troller/dispatcher.rb:27:in `dispatch'
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] \tfrom /var/www/globalscali\
ngsoftware-projects.com/redmine/redmine-1.0.0/public/dispatch.cgi:10
[Tue Aug 17 23:09:00 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.40] Premature end of script hea\
ders: dispatch.cgi

Otherwise Redmine works fine. I think I will try this HOWTO: Setup Redmine through Apache using Mongrel Clusters http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=674598 because it worked before on a different server.

Here are my ruby gems installed:

actionmailer (2.3.5)
actionpack (2.3.5)
activerecord (2.3.5)
activeresource (2.3.5)
activesupport (2.3.5)
inifile (0.3.0)
lockfile (1.4.3)
net-ssh (2.0.23)
rack (1.1.0, 1.0.1)
rails (2.3.5)
rake (0.8.7)

When I attempt to run dispatch.cgi I get:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22:in `__send__': undefined method `env_table' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22:in `dispatch_cgi'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:101:in `dispatch_cgi'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:27:in `dispatch'
        from ./dispatch.cgi:10

here are my local gems:

actionmailer (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
actionpack (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
activerecord (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
activeresource (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
activesupport (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
fcgi (0.8.7)
mysql (2.8.1)
rack (1.0.1)
rails (2.3.5, 2.1.1)
rake (0.8.7, 0.8.2)

Felix, Steve, and others, thank you so much for trying to help. Unfortunately, even with the trunk version, it was not possible to run it under CGI on SLES-10.

Just providing the answers: yes, SLES-10 may run SELinux, but it's disabled by default, and that's the scenario I was trying to. As they have their AppArmor application, which have some similarities, I also disabled it. Nothing like that was able to let Redmine work under CGI.

You see, by what I've read, I wasn't really planning to run it under CGI. It just made sense to me that CGI was a good start, and once it was working in that mode, I could upgrade that to FastCGI, Fcgid, etc.

Anyway, by the end of the day: I just couldn't run it under CGI. Period. The Apache user was really finding the correct executables and versions, configuration seemed totally ok, and so.

As soon as I got tired, and tried FastCGI, it worked flawlessly. Then I changed it to fcgid. Running great right at this moment.

So, thank you very much guys. But getting Redmine (or even other Rails apps, I didn't try any others to be true) to run CGI at some scenarios is really a fight.

Obs.: I had a Debian server recently delivered to me... can't believe that, among a lot of problems to have Rails running, I had the very same problem with CGI. Immediately, I moved it to fcgid, and everything is going wonderful.

Once again, thank you guys, and sorry for having taken so much time to inform you on my progress.

I'm having the same problem. I wonder if this could be part of the problem.

• Rails 2.3.2, Apache2 and CGI not working -- http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/182327

The post talks about Rails 2.3.2, but there is also a comment that says "CGI support will be removed certainly in the next release, so don't waste your time trying to make it work."

I had the same problem under Ubuntu 10.04, and I was able to resolve it by changing the file public/.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_cgi.c> had to be changed to <IfModule mod_cgid.c>

Hope that helps!

Mirek Kratochvil wrote:

I tracked the problem to a point where it seems that cgi object that needs to be passed to rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:22 just isn't created somehow. Creating it manually in dispatch.cgi and passing it on, like this:

require 'cgi'
Dispatcher.dispatch(CGI.new)

..moves the application a little further, but it then fails on some other error.

Thanks mk!

I was able to get redmine 1.2.0 working with cgi with the following patch to rails:

--- ../src/redmine-1.2.0/./vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb    2011-05-31 02:53:34.000000000 +1000
+++ ./vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb    2011-06-12 16:09:27.000000000 +1000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     end

     def self.dispatch_cgi(app, cgi, out = $stdout)
-      env = cgi.__send__(:env_table)
+      env = cgi.__send__(:env_table).to_hash
       env.delete "HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH" 

       cgi.stdinput.extend ProperStream
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@

         headers['Status'] = status.to_s

-        if headers.include?('Set-Cookie')
+        if headers.include?('Set-Cookie') and headers['Set-Cookie'] != nil
           headers['cookie'] = headers.delete('Set-Cookie').split("\n")
         end

--- ../src/ruby-1.8.7-p334/lib/cgi.rb    2009-12-14 13:40:07.000000000 +1100
+++ ../lib/ruby/1.8/cgi.rb    2011-06-12 19:23:41.000000000 +1000
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
       options["type"] = "text/html" 
     end

-    if options.has_key?("charset")
+    if options.has_key?("charset") and options["charset"] != nil
       options["type"] += "; charset=" + options.delete("charset")
     end

@@ -588,13 +588,19 @@
       buf += "Connection: " + options.delete("connection") + EOL
     end

-    buf += "Content-Type: " + options.delete("type") + EOL
+    if options.has_key?("type") and options["type"] != nil
+      buf += "Content-Type: " + options.delete("type") + EOL
+    elsif options.has_key?("Content-Type") and options["Content-Type"] != nil
+      buf += "Content-Type: " + options.delete("Content-Type") + EOL
+    else
+      buf += "Content-Type: " + "text/plain" + EOL
+    end

     if options.has_key?("length")
       buf += "Content-Length: " + options.delete("length").to_s + EOL
     end

-    if options.has_key?("language")
+    if options.has_key?("language") and options["language"] != nil
       buf += "Content-Language: " + options.delete("language") + EOL
     end