Passenger & Rails refuse to start up in production environment

Question

I have a production server that refuses to start up in the 'production' environment. it recently ran Rails 2.x and Passenger 1 (or 2 can't remember) just fine. Upgraded Rails & Passenger and now it starts up in the development environment even though Passenger docs say it should default to production. We haven't changed anything in its default setup.

Though I just tried adding RailsEnv production to the Virtual Hosts file...to no effect.

How can I troubleshoot this? The only output I see in the console is:

server:current elvis$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.3)

and trying to hit app with a web browser presents this dialog after a long delay (30+ secs)

• Mac OS X Server 10.5.8
• Rails 3.0.3
• Passenger 3.0.0
• MySQL: 5.0.82

Answer 1

Did you install Passenger to Nginx or Apache? You start the Rails app by running the webserver, not rails c . Nginx, for example, will then load the Passenger module which will run your Rails app as needed. So, startup Nginx or Apache and you should be good to go.