ISPConfig and Ruby

[antun]

I'm trying to enable my ISPConfig (on Ubuntu) to run Rails apps. I just updated ISPConfig to 2.2.7, and followed this HowTo:

http://www.howtoforge.com/apache2-mod_ruby-with-ispconfig-2.2.20-and-above

When I run the test, it doesn't work; I just see the Ruby source displayed.

Step 5 of the instructions says:

If you enable Ruby for that web site, ISPConfig adds something like this to the web site's Apache vhost configuration:


How do I "enable Ruby" for a web site? I don't see any options in the ISPConfig panel.

Should I have the ruby executable installed? I just installed the mod_ruby module as described in the instructions above. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS.

Thanks for any help in advance!

-Antun

[Hans]

On the basis tab of the website in ISPConfig you should see a checkbox "Ruby".

[antun]

Hi Hans,

I don't see a "Ruby" checkbox on the basis tab.

I've verified that ISPConfig 2.2.7 is successfully installed, by going to Tools>Software Version.

Is there anything else I have to install or update as far as Apache is concerned?

Thanks,

Antun

[till]

Ruby is not supported by ISPConfig 2.2.7. Please update to the latest release (2.2.23).

[antun]

Hi Till,

Ah - silly me! I downloaded 2.2.23, but then inadvertently re-installed 2.2.7 (which I still had in my downloads directory from before)! I've installed 2.2.23 correctly now, and I do get the Ruby option on the basis tab. I've checked it for a site, but my test .rb script still doesn't work.

Do I need to do anything else? After checking the Ruby checkbox, and restarting Apache, I don't see anything about Ruby in the vhosts file here:

/etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf

Should there be something there?

Thanks,

Antun

[till]

Did you install mod_ruby first? Otherwise it will lead to an error when you enable ruby in ISPConfig and ISPConfig will use a copy of the last working version of the Vhosts_ispconfig.conf file, the one without ruby enabled.

[antun]

Hi Till,

Yes, I had installed mod_ruby yesterday, using the following command:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-ruby

I did a phpinfo() to check whether it was installed, and mod_ruby is in the list of "Loaded Modules" under "apache2handler".

-Antun

[till]

Please post the output of:

ls -la /etc/apache2/vhosts/

[antun]

Hi Till,

Thanks for your time:

root@www:~/downloads/ispconfig# ls -la /etc/apache2/vhosts/
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-30 10:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2008-06-29 22:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10915 2008-06-30 10:27 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10977 2008-06-19 22:25 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_19-06-08_22-25-31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10975 2008-06-20 10:01 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_20-06-08_10-01-31
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10975 2008-06-29 22:15 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_29-06-08_22-15-55
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10975 2008-06-30 10:10 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_30-06-08_10-10-36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10933 2008-06-30 10:25 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_30-06-08_10-25-50
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11273 2008-06-30 10:27 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_30-06-08_10-27-34

Regards,

Antun

[falko]

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7719

[antun]

Hi Falko,

I'm not sure how this happened, but I had already responded to a different thread (http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3756&page=2). I received an email notification that someone had responded to a thread I was subscribed to, and I clicked the link in the email, and posted my reply there. I had never posted on that other thread (entitled "After adding "Include vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf" httpd won;t startup"), and I don't remember ever reading it, let alone subscribing to it. Does Till have the ability to subscribe me to another thread?

Anyway, here are the results from doing the following:


1) Rename Vhosts_ispconfig.conf to Vhosts_ispconfig.conf.bak
2) Rename Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_30-06-08_10-27-34 to Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
3) Run:

httpd -t


I ran the http -t command like you said (thanks for the pointer, by the way) and it gave the following error:

Syntax error on line 323 of /etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here

There was an AllowOverride All on line 323. I removed it, ran httpd -t again, then got a Syntax OK message.

What's the right next step here - should I reinstall ISPConfig, leaving the current vhost file in place, or can I just edit that vhost file?

BTW, how would the AllowOverride All get into that file - is it possible that it was added there because I added it to the Apache Directives section of the particular site in ISPConfig?

My main question now is: what should I do now? If I remove the offending line (AllowOverride All), then what triggers ISPConfig to reset? Do I have to reinstall it?

Thanks,

Antun

[antun]

Thanks all for your help. I got this resolved, but the discussion's on another thread, so here's the link:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=133865&posted=1#post133865

Oh, and as a temporary workaround I had created a file called antun-ruby in /etc/apache2/conf.d with the following settings to "force" the mod_ruby option for that site:


<IfModule mod_ruby.c>
<Directory /var/www/web9/web>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
#RubySafeLevel 0
<Files *.rb>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
<Files *.rbx>
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
</Files>
</IfModule>


-Antun