Setting Rails up on a red hat box with apache 1.3 and fastcgi, getting phantom errors

[Bob Carologees]

not sure why but all seems to be fine, fastcgi is spawning processes properly and there are no errors in the rails logs or the apache logs.

[Tue Jun 13 22:38:51 2006] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 28940)
[Tue Jun 13 22:38:52 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.36 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.27 OpenSSL/0.9.7a configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 13 22:38:52 2006] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec)
[Tue Jun 13 22:38:52 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Tue Jun 13 22:39:20 2006] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/home/rails/public_html/test2/public/dispatch.fcgi" started (pid 29022)

as you can see the fastcgi process starts ok but i then get an application error when running it

Application error

Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

Any ideas? Already checked the obvious ones like shebang line, have created a new rails app in case any syntax errors, still not working.

[Bob Carologees]

Ahh, running dispatch.fcgi using debug on ruby I get the following:

root@localhost [/home/rails/public_html/test2/public]# ruby --debug dispatch.fcgi
Exception `NameError' at ./../config/boot.rb:14 - uninitialized constant Rails
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:334: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:363: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/migration.rb:224: warning: instance variable @ignore_new_methods not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/migration.rb:224: warning: instance variable @ignore_new_methods not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:41: warning: method redefined; discarding old allow_concurrency=
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlserver_adapter.rb:456: warning: method redefined; discarding old remove_column
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- db2/db2cli
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- db2/db2cli
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- db2/db2cli
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/oracle_adapter.rb:119: warning: (...) interpreted as grouped expression
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:19 - no such file to load -- oci8
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- sybsql
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- sybsql
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- sybsql
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:169: warning: method redefined; discarding old relative_url_root
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- Win32API
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- Win32API
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- Win32API
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:17: warning: method redefined; discarding old []=
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb:57: warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb:8: warning: method redefined; discarding old initialize_query
Exception `DRb::DRbServerNotFound' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1647 - DRb::DRbServerNotFound
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- memcache
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- memcache
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- memcache
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/session/active_record_store.rb:129: warning: private attribute?
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/session/active_record_store.rb:179: warning: method redefined; discarding old connection
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb:640: warning: ambiguous first argument; put parentheses or even spaces
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb:873: warning: `*' interpreted as argument prefix
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:19 - no such file to load -- redcloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/requires.rb:19 - no such file to load -- bluecloth
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- html/tokenizer
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- html/tokenizer
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- html/tokenizer
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.1/lib/action_mailer/vendor/tmail/facade.rb:486: warning: method redefined; discarding old create_reply
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- tmail/base64.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- tmail/base64.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- tmail/base64.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- tmail/scanner_c.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- tmail/scanner_c.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- tmail/scanner_c.so
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- xml/parser
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- xml/parser
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- xml/parser
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- xml/parser
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- xml/parser
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- xmlscan/scanner
Set XSD::XMLParser::REXMLParser as XML processor.
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- http-access2
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- http-access2
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- http-access2
Loading http-access2 failed.  Net/http is used.
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/xmlrpc_protocol.rb:6: warning: discarding old message
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:581: warning: method redefined; discarding old []=
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:590: warning: method redefined; discarding old []
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:595: warning: method redefined; discarding old keys
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:600: warning: method redefined; discarding old find_pair
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:607: warning: method redefined; discarding old []=
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:611: warning: method redefined; discarding old []
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:615: warning: method redefined; discarding old method_missing
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/initializer.rb:483: warning: instance variable @after_initialize_block not initialized
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- fcgi
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21 - no such file to load -- application_api
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29 - no such file to load -- application_api
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:150 - no such file to load -- application_api
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:32 - no such file to load -- application_api
Exception `MissingSourceFile' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/container/action_controller_container.rb:68 - Missing API definition file in apis/application_api.rb
Exception `ActionController::RoutingError' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:488 - Recognition failed for ""
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:103: warning: instance variable @session not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:304: warning: instance variable @data not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/components.rb:119: warning: instance variable @flash not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/components.rb:121: warning: instance variable @parent_controller not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:155: warning: instance variable @flash not initialized
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:18: warning: instance variable @write_lock not initialized
Exception `NoMethodError' at /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/request.rb:17 - undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Type: text/html

Any ideas?

Edit:

Hmm, checked that on windows where it works and same errors appear so that doesnt seem to be causing it to fail.

[Bob Carologees]

Fixed, needed to do a gem update