RHEL 4 instructions modification needed about passenger HOT 11 CLOSED

From honglilai on April 15, 2008 13:05:31

Hi erbmicha. Are these instructions applicable for RHEL 4 only, or for newer RHEL
versions as well?

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement

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From erbmicha on April 15, 2008 13:25:54

Sorry, but I do not know as I only have access to RHEL 4 servers. I assume that the up2date commands were
moved forward with subsequent releases...

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From honglilai on April 16, 2008 04:02:49

Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Low OpSys-Linux Usability

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From osh.sean on April 22, 2008 13:34:38

up2date is only applicable to RHEL4 (as far as I know) ... I have access to both and RHEL 5 uses "yum"...

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From xipher1 on April 27, 2008 13:06:09

I am on RHEL as well, but I installed apache 2 from source, is there a way to specify
the location of these files on the command line when running
passenger-install-apache2-module?

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From honglilai on April 27, 2008 13:47:37

Yes. See "2.2. Specifying the correct Apache installation" in the Users guide.

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From mikeisgreat on May 18, 2009 11:25:36

mod_rails passenger RHEL4 issues and fixes (multiple apaches installed)
I had a migration to complete today. I was dropping mongrel while moving from rails1
to rails2 on our customer support server. It got a little bit ugly when trying to get
passenger (mod_rails) up and running.

There was an old httpd package installed by up2date awhile back that was not in use
but seemed to be the culprit. I haven't been using that for a long time, we use our
own compiled version of apache.

after installing passenger via "gem install passenger":

[Mon May 18 11:48:26 2009] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of
this error: Could not connect to the ApplicationPool server: Connection reset by peer
(104)
[Mon May 18 11:48:26 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
DAV/2 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon May 18 11:48:40 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
/usr/local/apache/logs/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/ApplicationPoolServerExecutable:
error while loading shared libraries: libapr-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
[Mon May 18 11:56:25 2009] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of
this error: Could not connect to the ApplicationPool server: Connection reset by peer
(104)
[Mon May 18 11:56:25 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...
[Mon May 18 11:56:25 2009] [notice] Digest: done
/usr/local/apache/logs/passenger-2.2.2/ext/apache2/ApplicationPoolServerExecutable:
error while loading shared libraries: libapr-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
[Mon May 18 11:56:26 2009] [error] *** Passenger could not be initialized because of
this error: Could not connect to the ApplicationPool server: Connection reset by peer
(104)
[Mon May 18 11:56:26 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
DAV/2 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.2 configured -- resuming normal operations

after reading the passenger docs I set:

export APXS2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs

and ran "passenger-install-apache2-module"

Checking for required software...

• GNU C++ compiler... found at /usr/bin/g++
• Ruby development headers... found
• OpenSSL support for Ruby... found
• RubyGems... found
• Rake... found at /usr/local/bin/rake
• Apache 2... found at /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
• Apache 2 development headers... found at /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
• fastthread... found
• fastthread... found
• Apache Portable Runtime (APR) development headers... found at
  /usr/local/apache/bin/apr-1-config
• Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APU) development headers... found at
  /usr/local/apache/bin/apu-1-config

..and everything looked okay until I tried to hit the site. It wasn't loading the
rails app with the same error above. After removing the old up2date rpm's for httpd

rpm -e --nodeps httpd-devel

After removing the older httpd rpm's and attempted to build the apache module:

Checking for required software...

• GNU C++ compiler... found at /usr/bin/g++
• Ruby development headers... found
• OpenSSL support for Ruby... found
• RubyGems... found
• Rake... found at /usr/local/bin/rake
• Apache 2... not found
• Apache 2 development headers... not found
• fastthread... found
• fastthread... found
• Apache Portable Runtime (APR) development headers... not found
• Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APU) development headers... not found

Some required software is not installed.
But don't worry, this installer will tell you how to install them.

Which I thought was odd because previously it was telling me it was using the headers
found in /usr/local/apache -- where it should have been.

next step:

I added the following to /etc/ld.so.conf

echo "/usr/local/apache/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

than ran:

ldconfig

I removed the passenger gem and reinstalled it.

after installing the apache module -- wallah. app is running.

hopefully that helps someone else and saves them a little time.

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From honglilai on May 18, 2009 11:37:47

mikeisgreat: your problem is actually related to a linking bug that we fixed a few
days ago. The next version should work without you having to edit ld.so.conf.

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From mikeisgreat on May 18, 2009 15:17:12

honglilai: ack! Yes, this is what I figured,but it still took me about an hour to
figure out. would've take less, but I forgot to run ldconfig after editing ld.so.conf.

thanks for putting my dogs (mongrels) to sleep! :-)

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From kanarip on July 17, 2009 01:14:37

Patch in commit b3e6a03cc81981dfd7e7ab5b673575def5381602 on
git://git.kanarip.com/passenger applies to:

origin/stable-1.0
origin/stable-2.0
origin/stable-2.1

• View: http://git.kanarip.com/?p=passenger;a=commitdiff;h=b3e6a03cc81981dfd7e7ab5b673575def5381602 Patch in commit c1f22f87bf35f8928202625ef462aa36774a260e on
  git://git.kanarip.com/passenger applies to:

origin/master

• View: http://git.kanarip.com/?p=passenger;a=commitdiff;h=c1f22f87bf35f8928202625ef462aa36774a260e

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From honglilai on February 04, 2013 01:23:50

Status: WontFix

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