Casual Coder's questions

My server is:

Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu)
Server built:   Aug 16 2010 17:44:11

My ruby version ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [x86_64-linux].

I've installed passenger 3.0.7 via RubyGems. I've run passenger-install-apache2-module and everything went fine. I've modified configuration (load module, edit virtualhost etc.) and restarted Apache. Module is loading fine (apache does not complain). But Passenger is obviously not working:

sudo passenger-status
ERROR: Phusion Passenger doesn't seem to be running.

How can I get it working ?

Edit 1:

/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/passenger.load

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.7/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so

Root of passenger:

passenger-config --root
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.7

Apache VirtualHost sub URI configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/railsapps:

<VirtualHost <IP ADDRESS>:80>                                                                                                                                                                                    
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName my.server.name

    PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.7
    PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby
    RailsEnv development

    DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/railsapps

    <Directory /www/vhosts/railsapps>
        Options FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    RailsBaseURI /siteA
    <Directory /www/vhosts/railsapps/siteA>
        Options -MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    RailsBaseURI /siteB
    <Directory /www/vhosts/railsapps/siteB>
        AllowOverride All
        Options -MultiViews
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    LogLevel info

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/railsapps_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/railsapps_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Of course as in 'users guide apache.html' siteA and siteB are symlinks to siteA/public and siteB/public absolute paths respectively.

Edit 2:

In logs there is nothing related to passenger. Permissions are also fine (read and executable) on directories in paths. Even if it was some misconfiguration or permission problem isn't passenger suppose to be running? I mean sudo passenger-status should at least output --- general information ---. When I place some test html file in railsapps directory it is served fine.

/var/log/apache2/railsapps_error.log

[Sun Jun 19 12:19:08 2011] [error] [client <IP>] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /www/vhosts/railsapps/siteA/
[Sun Jun 19 12:19:08 2011] [error] [client <IP>] File does not exist: /www/vhosts/railsapps/favicon.ico

I want to know how to move or get rid of /dev/tty8 log output in Ubuntu 9.10. /dev/tty7 is my regular X session. When I am switching user to test account where I can try and test setups and configs I am at next available console i.e. /dev/tty9 because /dev/tty8 is taken by log output. Where can I configure this ? All I've found related to /dev/tty8 is commented lines in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf. I changed it like that:

daemon,mail.*;\
 news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
 *.=debug;*.=info;\
 *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty12

And I've got nice log output on /dev/tty12 but where is configuration for log output on /dev/tty8. How can I change it?

EDIT 1:

with grep -R '/dev/tty8' /etc/* I found some clearing commands on VT 8 in /etc/init/usplash.conf:

/etc/init/usplash.conf: tput -Tlinux reset > /dev/tty8 || true
/etc/init/usplash.conf:    clear >/dev/tty8 || true

Clearing and reseting ... hmmm. But where is config responsible for redirecting log output and from what ?

EDIT 2:
lsof | grep tty gives no output for /dev/tty8. So no process is writing to it, right? /dev/tty1-6 are associated with getty and /dev/tty7 is associated with Xorg, nothing for /dev/tty8.