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Alex Malex
Asked: 2012-07-29 23:53:34 +0800 CST

Why can't I install Phusion Passenger for nginx?

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I'm trying to install phusion passenger. 

passenger-install-nginx-module

Eventually I got an error

Permission problems

This installer must be able to write to the following directory:

  /opt/nginx

But it can't do that, because you're running the installer as alex.
Please re-run this installer as root.

I tried to do to 

sudo passenger-install-nginx-module

but it says 

sudo: passenger-install-nginx-module: command not found

How do I solve it?

software-installation

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From Passenger installation with nginx fails in Stack Overflow:

    The correct way of running the Phusion Passenger installer for nginx, when using RVM, is to use rvmsudo as in:

    rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module

    Credits go to this blog post.

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  2. I'm using rbenv instead of rvm, so rvmsudo isnt an option for me.

    I solved it by running: which passenger-install-nginx-module then running that with sudo.

    In my case it was:

    sudo ~/.rbenv/shims/passenger-install-nginx-module

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  3. open your terminal and type this to create a user as deploy .

    sudo adduser deploy

    then do Update and install required dependencies with this command 

    sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev curl git-core python-software-properties

    then we have to install Ruby 

    wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz
tar -xvzf ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p194/
./configure
make
sudo make install
echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" >> ~/.gemrc
sudo gem install bundler

    Then now we are able to install Nginx with Passenger , with these commands 

    sudo gem install passenger
sudo passenger-install-nginx-module

    Hope that helps .

    Source: http://excid3.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-12-04-with-ruby-1-9-3-nginx-passenger-and-postgresql-or-mysql/

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