Posts Tagged ‘Apache’

Multiple Rails Apps Under Passenger

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

My development server is on a home LAN behind a firewall, and I don’t want to make it a DNS sub-domain. I have directed my router to issue fixed IP addresses through DHCP, so I… Continue reading

Rails and PHP under Ubuntu Apache

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

I have Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) running on my laptop. It’s rapidly becoming my portable development machine, so I set up the Rails environment right away. I have decided to add PHP to the… Continue reading | 2 Comments

HAML and Apache Encodings

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

I’m playing around a bit with the HAML gem. It broke my Apache / Passenger server immediately. The original error message looked something like:

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ 2009-05-01 10:05:18 -1000
Status… Continue reading

Apache Through the Firewall

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Back in the old days (pre-2000), the various flavors of UNIX had very little security other than the “baked-in” stuff such as encrypted passwords, root vs normal users, the standard file permissions, etc. Later, things… Continue reading

Configuring Passenger sub-URIs

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Passenger sub-URIs allow you to run multiple Rails aplications under one Apache virtual host, which is great for development. Although Phusion has documented how to do this, I was having trouble. Eventually I got… Continue reading