Rails: Phusion Passenger

Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps.

Some notes on installing it:

Ignore the docs that suggest:

$ sudo gem install passenger

$ sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

Instead use:

gem install passenger

should be sufficient and rvm.io suggests just running:

passenger-install-apache2-module

and

Then, paste the LoadModule code it spits out at the end into your Apache conf file.

Test whether Passenger has installed by running:

curl -sI localhost | grep ^Server

and check for the “Phusion_Passenger” signature. E.g.

Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/4.0.5 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8x

If you need to uninstall Passenger using sudo then:

$ sudo gem uninstall passenger

And a discussion on whether to use rvmsudo or not here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyversionmanager/9dnmAsTiHR4

suggests using sudo but the rvm page suggests not:

Note:

If you get a warning doing the passenger install apache2 module like this:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

Warning: can not check /etc/sudoers for secure_path, falling back to call via /usr/bin/env, this breaks rules from /etc/sudoers. Run:

export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

Then run:

export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

and:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

(remember to run rvm requirements afterwards)

On the Mac the Apache conf and restart commands go like this:

[~]$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

[~]$ sudo apachectl restart

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