Phil's questions

I am doing all this from the root account.

I have followed this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-apache-and-mysql-on-ubuntu-with-passenger

I have tried mounting extra swap space since server only has 512MB of RAM (half shared, half "mine").

I have installed the software the passenger installation guide was depending on.

When I run passenger-install-apache2-module and rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module I get all green during the checks and then the last thing that happens before it always stalls for a long time and then kicks me out of the ssh session:

mkdir -p buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2
g++ -Iext -Iext/common -Iext/libev -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -DHAVE_ACCEPT4 -DHAS_ALLOCA_H -DHAS_SFENCE -DHAS_LFENCE -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -ggdb -DPASSENGER_DEBUG -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -DVISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED -Wno-attributes -o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -c ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp
Write failed: Broken pipe

I am pulling hair but it doesn't help much. There doesn't seem to be any trace of this problem using my google-fu so I'm guessing I FUBAR'd the server at an earlier point. But I have really only tried to install rails so there's not a lot of other things on it.

I have ruby on RVM, if that matters.

Any ideas?

edit: ps xfawww output:

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
    3 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/0:0]
    5 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/u:0]
    6 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/0]
    7 ?        S      0:02  \_ [watchdog/0]
    8 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/1]
    9 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/1:0]
   10 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/1]
   11 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/1]
   12 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/2]
   13 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/2:0]
   14 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/2]
   15 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/2]
   16 ?        S      0:00  \_ [migration/3]
   17 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/3:0]
   18 ?        S      0:01  \_ [ksoftirqd/3]
   19 ?        S      0:01  \_ [watchdog/3]
   20 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [cpuset]
   21 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [khelper]
   22 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kdevtmpfs]
   23 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [netns]
   24 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kworker/u:1]
   25 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xenwatch]
   26 ?        S      0:00  \_ [xenbus]
   27 ?        S      0:03  \_ [sync_supers]
   28 ?        S      0:00  \_ [bdi-default]
   29 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kintegrityd]
   30 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kblockd]
   31 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/2:1]
   32 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [ata_sff]
   33 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khubd]
   34 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [md]
   36 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khungtaskd]
   37 ?        D      0:12  \_ [kswapd0]
   38 ?        SN     0:00  \_ [ksmd]
   39 ?        S      0:00  \_ [fsnotify_mark]
   40 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ecryptfs-kthrea]
   41 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [crypto]
   49 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [kthrotld]
   50 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khvcd]
   51 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/1:1]
   70 ?        S<     0:00  \_ [devfreq_wq]
   94 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/0:1]
  163 ?        S      0:07  \_ [kworker/3:1]
  204 ?        S      0:01  \_ [kjournald]
  612 ?        S      0:02  \_ [flush-202:1]
    1 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/init
  273 ?        S      0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon
  287 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
  376 ?        S      0:00  \_ /sbin/udevd --daemon
  389 ?        S      0:00  \_ /sbin/udevd --daemon
  394 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
16303 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/0    
16320 pts/0    Ss     0:00  |   \_ -bash
16580 pts/0    Sl+    0:00  |       \_ /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/passenger-install-apache2-module                                                                 
16702 pts/0    Sl+    0:00  |           \_ /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin/rake                                                                                                   
17120 pts/0    S+     0:00  |               \_ g++ -Iext -Iext/common -Iext/libev -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -DHAVE_ACCEPT4 -DHAS_ALLOCA_H -DHAS_SFENCE -DHAS_LFENCE -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -ggdb -DPASSENGER_DEBUG -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -DVISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED -Wno-attributes -o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -c ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp
17121 pts/0    D+     0:05  |                   \_ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/cc1plus -quiet -I ext -I ext/common -I ext/libev -I /usr/local/include -imultilib . -imultiarch x86_64-linux-gnu -D_GNU_SOURCE -D _REENTRANT -D HAS_TR1_UNORDERED_MAP -D HAVE_ACCEPT4 -D HAS_ALLOCA_H -D HAS_SFENCE -D HAS_LFENCE -D PASSENGER_DEBUG -D BOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -D VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED ext/common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.cpp -quiet -dumpbase Implementation.cpp -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -auxbase-strip buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o -ggdb -Wno-ambiguous-member-template -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-attributes -fcommon -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fvisibility=hidden -fstack-protector -o /tmp/ccYZpm8l.s
16967 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: root@pts/1    
16986 pts/1    Ss     0:00      \_ -bash
17128 pts/1    R+     0:00          \_ ps xfawww
  429 ?        S      0:00 upstart-socket-bridge --daemon
  441 ?        Ss     0:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork --activation=upstart
  466 ?        Sl     0:35 rsyslogd -c5
  517 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4
  521 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5
  529 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2
  530 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3
  532 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6
  534 ?        Ss     0:00 acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
  540 ?        Ss     0:00 cron
  541 ?        Ss     0:00 atd
  550 ?        S      0:22 /usr/bin/daemon --pidfile /var/run/pagekite.pid.wrapper --noconfig --unsafe --respawn --delay=60 --name=pagekite -- /usr/bin/pagekite --pidfile /var/run/pagekite.pid --clean --runas=daemon:daemon --logfile=/var/log/pagekite/pagekite.log --optdir=/etc/pagekite.d --noloop
  585 hvc0     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 hvc0
  587 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1

Becasuse when I try, I get internal server error (code 500) stating that the web.config wasn't found...

Has anyone done this before and succeeded? I installed php through the web installer.

I've setup redmine and have working mercurial repositories.

The hg repos are located in /home/hg/repos so I've set hg as owner to be able to push.

Is it possible to make redmine automatically setup repos when "creating" them in the web UI? There's only one person I can trust with su access on our linux machine but several users should be able to create projects and associated repos. It would be ideal to set this up so redmine automatically creates those repos.

Is this possible? Am I clear enough in my question?

I've read an enormous amount of articles but I seem to sidetrack more and more the more I try.

I'm trying to serve mercurial repos through HTTP. I'm using it together with redmine.

I've installed mercurial-server. I've set up a repo that I can't connect to from the outside. When I try to browse to that address I can see the index.html I put in the directory but when I use TortoiseHg and browse to the same address I get a 404. Am I supposed to point to a specific file? I've only tried pointing to the directory like so "http://www.example.com/hg/repo/".

Right now I'm only trying to pull the repo but I'd like to be able to push through HTTP temporarily if that is possible.

How will I set up user push access (through HTTPS) to the repo? Do the users have to exist on the linux machine? This is where the articles and tutorials confuse me as some mention "mercurial users" and others create own users on the machine serving the repo. I'd like to use the simplest scenario possible..

Please be as detailed as possible.. I'll greatly appreciate any help on the subject!

I installed Redmine on an Ubuntu machine and have created a project which uses Mercurial as version control.

The Redmine application is the root of my Apache config. So redmine.domain.com goes directly to the Redmine installation where users log in, etc.

I created a repository in /var/www/redmine/merc/. When I set that as the root for the Redmine project, Redmine finds it and shows me files and versions under the repository tab.

What I'm trying to do is to pull this repository to my local machine running Windows 7. I installed TurtoiseHg and it went well. Now when I'm trying to pull from

http://redmine.domain.com/merc/

I get 404 not found. When I try to pull from

http://redmine.domain.com/projects/project1/repository

I get 406 command aborted!

How am I supposed to set this up? I looked in Apache's config files but I didn't see anything that would suggest that external requests be aborted.

I ditched my attempts to install redmine on a CentOS machine and instead wiped it and installed Ubuntu 10.10 on it as this seemed to work in a lot of attempts I've seen online.

Not for me though..

I get what looks like a compilation error when i go to (http to it's ip) the machine (which probably means that apache2 is working as it should?). Look at the attached error message for more info.

Does anyone know where to start with this one?

These are the possible causes:

    *
      There may be a syntax error in the application's code. Please check for such errors and fix them.
    *
      A required library may not installed. Please install all libraries that this application requires.
    *
      The application may not be properly configured. Please check whether all configuration files are written correctly, fix any incorrect configurations, and restart this application.
    *
      A service that the application relies on (such as the database server or the Ferret search engine server) may not have been started. Please start that service.

Further information about the error may have been written to the application's log file. Please check it in order to analyse the problem.

Error message:
    syntax error on line 76, col 0: `production:'
Exception class:
    ArgumentError
Application root:
    /var/www/redmine 
Backtrace:
    #   File    Line    Location
    0   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb   133     in `load'
    1   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb   133     in `load'
    2   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb   144     in `load_file'
    3   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb   143     in `open'
    4   /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb   143     in `load_file'
    5   /var/www/redmine/config/initializers/40-email.rb    6   
    6   /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb   147     in `load_without_new_constant_marking'
    7   /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb   147     in `load'
    8   /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   622     in `load_application_initializers'
    9   /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   621     in `each'
    10  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   621     in `load_application_initializers'
    11  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   176     in `process'
    12  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   113     in `send'
    13  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb   113     in `run'
    14  /var/www/redmine/config/environment.rb  20  
    15  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb    31  in `gem_original_require'
    16  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb    31  in `require'
    17  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb   222     in `preload_application'
    18  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb   181     in `initialize_server'
    19  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb   564     in `report_app_init_status'
    20  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb   174     in `initialize_server'
    21  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb     204     in `start_synchronously'
    22  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb     180     in `start'
    23  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/classic_rails/application_spawner.rb   149     in `start'
    24  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb   219     in `spawn_rails_application'
    25  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb  132     in `lookup_or_add'
    26  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb   214     in `spawn_rails_application'
    27  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb  82  in `synchronize'
    28  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server_collection.rb  79  in `synchronize'
    29  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb   213     in `spawn_rails_application'
    30  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb   132     in `spawn_application'
    31  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb   275     in `handle_spawn_application'
    32  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb     357     in `__send__'
    33  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb     357     in `server_main_loop'
    34  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb     206     in `start_synchronously'
    35  /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/helper-scripts/passenger-spawn-server    99  

Just to be clear; I'm trying to install redmine on ubuntu 10.10. Apache2 is running as web server and i've got Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3.5 installed as redmine needs that version.

EDIT: email.yml:

 production:
   delivery_method: :smtp
   smtp_settings:
     tls: true
     address: "smtp.googlemail.com"
     port: 587
     domain: "domain.com"
     authentication: :plain
     user_name: "[email protected]"
     password: xxxxxxx

I used no quotes on the password. Everything else in email.yml is commented out with #

I'm trying to change version of the running ruby on a CentOs machine.

-# rvm use ruby-1.9.1-p378
-# ruby -v
-# ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux]

It is installed (by rvm) and I get no complains when I try to use that version, whereas I get complains when trying to use another version.

Anyone got any ideas on how to get this working? I'm essentially trying to install rails on top of this and I get a too-old-version complaint if I'm trying to install on 1.8.6.

Thanks for any input..

I'm trying to install RedMine (www.redmine.org) which is an awesome project management tool. I have access to a CentOS machine which is supposed to host it. I found some guide specifying how to install an old version of ruby and I tried to install it and then update to no avail. The latest version of rails requires a newer version of ruby than what I've got installed.

Could someone point me in the direction of how I can upgrade that ruby version? Yum hasn't registered it so I'm kind of stuck..