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Configuration of mod_passenger with apache

• Config apache

Configure apache to enable the module and the application

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_passenger.conf

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby

vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80

#Section to define the rails application on apache
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName apphostname
DocumentRoot /var/www/appfolder/current/public

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/app-error.log
RailsEnv development

<Directory /var/www/appfolder/>
Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

#Section to imit the access on server-status and server-info

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName hostnameofthe server

<Location /server-info>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from youripsite
</Location>

<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from youripsite
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

• Mod_passenger parametters :

Module Name: mod_passenger.c

Content handlers: yes

Configuration Phase Participation: Create Directory Config, Merge Directory Configs, Create Server Config, Merge Server Configs

Request Phase Participation: Map to Storage, Fixups, Content Handlers

Module Directives:

PassengerRoot - The Passenger root folder.

PassengerLogLevel - Passenger log verbosity.

PassengerRuby - The Ruby interpreter to use.

PassengerMaxPoolSize - The maximum number of simultaneously alive application instances.

PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp - The maximum number of simultaneously alive application instances a single application may occupy.

PassengerPoolIdleTime - The maximum number of seconds that an application may be idle before it gets terminated.

PassengerUseGlobalQueue - Enable or disable Passenger's global queuing mode mode.

PassengerUserSwitching - Whether to enable user switching support.

PassengerDefaultUser - The user that Rails/Rack applications must run as when user switching fails or is disabled.

PassengerTempDir - The temp directory that Passenger should use.

PassengerMaxRequests - The maximum number of requests that an application instance may process.

PassengerHighPerformance - Enable or disable Passenger's high performance mode.

PassengerEnabled - Enable or disable Phusion Passenger.

PassengerStatThrottleRate - Limit the number of stat calls to once per given seconds.

PassengerRestartDir - The directory in which Passenger should look for restart.txt.

PassengerAppRoot - The application's root directory.

PassengerUploadBufferDir - The directory in which upload buffer files should be placed.

PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot - Whether to resolve symlinks in the DocumentRoot path

PassengerAllowEncodedSlashes - Whether to support encoded slashes in the URL

RailsBaseURI - Reserve the given URI to a Rails application.

RailsAutoDetect - Whether auto-detection of Ruby on Rails applications should be enabled.

RailsAllowModRewrite - Whether custom mod_rewrite rules should be allowed.

RailsEnv - The environment under which a Rails app must run.

RailsSpawnMethod - The spawn method to use.

RailsFrameworkSpawnerIdleTime - The maximum number of seconds that a framework spawner may be idle before it is shutdown.

RailsAppSpawnerIdleTime - The maximum number of seconds that an application spawner may be idle before it is shutdown.

RackBaseURI - Reserve the given URI to a Rack application.

RackAutoDetect - Whether auto-detection of Rack applications should be enabled.

RackEnv - The environment under which a Rack app must run.

PassengerWSGIAutoDetect - Whether auto-detection of WSGI applications should be enabled.

RailsRuby - Deprecated option.

RailsMaxPoolSize - Deprecated option.

RailsMaxInstancesPerApp - Deprecated option

RailsPoolIdleTime - Deprecated option.

RailsUserSwitching - Deprecated option.

RailsDefaultUser - Deprecated option.

RailsSpawnServer - Obsolete option.

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