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[Pinki]

Hi,
Can any one help me to setup rails on cpanel. I am working as a Linux web server admin. I would really appreciate if any one can help we with a step by step procedure to setup rails on Cpanel.

[telson]

You need to login as the root user, install ruby, gems, rails, fcgi, mod_fastcgi and add a configuration line to http.conf and restart as follows.

$ cd /usr/local/src
$ wget ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-1.8.4
$ ./configure && make && make install

$ cd /usr/local/src
$ wget rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
$ tar -xvzf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
$ cd rubygems-0.8.11
$ ruby setup.rb

$ gem install rails

$ cd /usr/local/src
$ wget fastcgi.com/dist/fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd fcgi-2.4.0
$ ./configure && make && make install

$ cd /usr/local/src
$ wget fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf mod_fastcgi-2.4.2.tar.gz
$ cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.2
$ /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -o mod_fastcgi.so -c *.c
$ /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -i -a -n fastcgi mod_fastcgi.so

$ gem install fcgi

$ mkdir -p /tmp/fcgi_ipc
$ chown nobody.nobody /tmp/fcgi_ipc -R
$ chmod 755 /tmp/fcgi_ipc -R

Then in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf add

LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/mod_fastcgi.so
<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>

FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fcgi_ipc/
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

< /IfModule>

install any other gems you want like rmagick and gettext and then restart
apache however you like.. Remember if you install a gem you must restart
apache to be able to use it.

Now to actually get rails running, follow what I have done with this domain
use your own user

$ su people
$ cd ~
$ rails test
$ cd public_html
$ ln -s ../test/public/ rails
$ cd ../test/
$ chmod -R 777 tmp/
$ cd public
$ chmod 755 dispatch.fcgi
$ vim .htaccess

chmod -R a+rwx tmp is probably better than 777, but it is an afterthought to
just getting this done

Change “dispatch.cgi” to “dispatch.fcgi”

Load up for the website: domainname.com/rails/

Now you will find Rails running.