Ruby on Rails, Apache, and Fastcgi

[YopWongSapn]

Ok. I've been told of this "super-sweet" "wetdream for web developers" called Ruby on Rails. So, like any other geek, I tried it out. It's awesome from what I can tell. I installed it on my web server, and have been playing around with it for the last few days.

I really love it, except for one issue...it's damn slow through apache2. It takes at least 5 seconds for the pages to load, which obviously is not acceptable for a production website.

I ran the script/server script, which started up WEBrick (or whatever it's called) on port 3000. Rails ran beautifully at this point, so it's obviously an issue specific to apache2.

So, again, as any geek would do, I did some research. I found out that mod_fastcgi is a means of speeding it up; more specifically (as I later found out), there's a ruby-fcgi module. So I installed fastcgi, then ruby-fcgi. I think this may be one of my problems. I followed the tutorial here, as well as the how-to in these forums (although it was of little help).

Now, when I try to access one of the Rails pages, I get an error that says "Application error. Rails application failed to start properly". When I disable the fastcgi module within the apache conf file, it works properly, albiet slow.

Has anyone successfully gotten around this speed issue with apache2? Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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[petz]

Hi!
I had the same problem after Apache 2 was updated. I reemerged mod_fastcgi.
I also had to copy the /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/20_mod_fastcgi.conf to /etc/apache2/modules.d/

Then it worked again.

[YopWongSapn]

Thanks for the advice. While your solution didn't work for me, it set me on the right track. I upgraded apache, went through the wonderfully tedious process of switching over to the new config file structure (that was a good half hour down the drain).

Once I made sure all my other modules were still working, I moved on to fastcgi. Here's the key. I noticed that the public/dispatch script from my rails installation has the .fcgi extension. The stock /etc/apache2/modules.d/20_mod_fastcgi.conf file has