Phusion Passenger + NGinx with Rails 3

Question

indexI am trying to deploy a simple Rails 3 app on a AWS EC2 with a Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit AMI. I followed the steps in the Phusion Passenger NGinx install page. I also used RVM which was installed successfully.

My steps:

1. Install and configure RVM
2. Install Ruby 1.9.3
3. Install Rails 3.2.3
4. Install Passenger
5. Run passenger-install-nginx-module (had to use rvmsudo)
6. Created a new rails app (rails new passenger_test)

7. Added the following config section to the nginx.conf

    server { listen 80; server_name localhost; root /home/ubuntu/passenger_test/public; passenger_enabled on } 

I restarted nginx and the rails default public/index.html default rails page shows up but the rails.png doesn't render and "view your application's enviroment" link does not work. I have tried four different times on four fresh new server and always get the same result. Please help!

Answer 1

Ok. Just tried Ubuntu 11.10 t1.micro and got same error. Also tried Ubuntu 11.10 on a m1.small which was somewhat successful. This time got a 404 on the rails.png which what I think is normal in the production environment. Tried changing my rack/rails environment in my nginx.conf file as described here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#deploying_a_rack_app but got 500 server errors. Tried many other combination with changing the environment but still 500. Found out that if you set bot the rack_env and rails_env config option it complains about duplicate rails_env node. So went back to production and will try with a real rails app tomorrow.

ps The only other step I did differently on the m1.small is that I installed only rails after I ran passenger-install-nginx-module. Once NGinx and Passenger where installed and before I installed Rails I tested a simple Rack app as described here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#deploying_a_rack_app and it worked!