Hosting Rails apps

[StuB]

Hi,
I'm trying to host a Ruby on Rails app on my CentOS server that has Plesk on it.

But my domain isn't showing my app, it's just showing the "Default Parallel Plesk Panel Page" (which takes a ridiculously long time to load).

Am I right in thinking that I should create a domain in Plesk as normal, e.g. mydomain.co.uk. Then I create my Rails app in that folder at /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/railsapp/ correct?

I've heard that Phusion Passenger is the best way to host Rails sites, and so have installed it and configured it as suggested here: http://tnux.net/2008/06/23/plesk-passenger-mod_rails-railsenterpriseedition-ruby-on-rails/. In fact, I've followed all the steps on this page and it still isn't showing up.

What have I done wrong?

When I create the domain in Plesk, do I want the DNS service on? Do I need to configure it? Also, what hosting type do I want? No hosting? Or Web Hosting?

Thanks!

 

[IgorG]

Look at this documentation. I hope it will help.

 

[kadoudal]

Hi Stub

This is what I am doing for a while ... using subversion for project code management, I deploy easily all my apps using webistrano. Also using Apache/Passenger with sub-uris

if you need any help... or copy of my dev/deploy processes ... you're welcome

 

[kadoudal]

Plesk .. Rails ... Apache-Passenger Sub-URI

Look at this documentation. I hope it will help.

# for your information, this is the process I am using with Apache-Passenger
ssh ftp_username@mydomain.com
su
mkdir /var/rails
chown -R root:www-data /var/rails
mkdir -p /var/rails/mydomain
chown -R ftp_username:www-data /var/rails/mydomain
mkdir -p /var/rails/mydomain/myrailapp
chown -R ftp_username:www-data /var/rails/mydomain/myrailapp
# I setup, migrates & deploy the rail app into 'myrailapp' (this creates the releases and current release directory
# once done, I setup the Plesk vhost
# I use the URL format : www.mydomain.com/myrailapp (many rails apps in the same domain)
nano /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/conf/vhost.conf
RailsBaseURI /myrailapp
<Directory /var/rails/mydomain/myrailapp/current/public >
# Access control policy
#... up to you
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
</Directory>

then we need a link from the Plesk httpdocs
ln -s /var/rails/mydomain/myrailapp/current/public /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/myrailapp
chown -R ftp_usernamesacln /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/myrailapp

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

and that's it
hope it can help someone .. (read posts about Plesk & Apache-Passenger

 

[paul_h]

Hi,

I am having trouble viewing my rails app. I have read the docs suggested in the previous posts, and would like to know one thing first:
Do I _have_ to run FastCGI, or am I able to use passenger?

If I can use passenger then I'll elaborate on the problem, and hopefully someone can help me sort it. If I can't use passenger, I'll have to re-image the server to another OS without plesk.

Currently have:

CentOS 5
Plesk Panels 10
Ruby 1.9.2 (built from source)
Rails 3.0.3

Many Thanks

Paul

 

[paul_h]

oops sorry, just noticed this forum was for Plesk 9, found the thread on a google search.

Will re-post in the Plesk 10 forum.