Archive for July, 2008

500 Error in Rails Using Apache and mod_rails Passenger

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

So I just spent the good part of 4 hours trying to figure out why my fresh Ruby on Rails 2.1 apps was giving me a 500 error on my slice with mod_rails.

Permissions? No. Configurations? No. Etc etc.

I’ll just get straight to the point: apparently it was my database. Sure I ran:

rake db:migrate

..and it migrated fine, but yet still a 500 error like I tested many times. The fix?

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=”production”

Seems rake was stuck in the development environment. I’m not above saying it was just my ignorance of mod_rails environments, but why on earth would passenger default to development when it’s clearly made for production?

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