Setting up Phusion Passenger on my slice

As my slice is running low on memory, running multiply mongrel processes really isn't an option any more(I am too cheap to pay for more memory, in these trying economic times). Phusion passenger comes to the rescue! Phusion passenger is exactly what the rails community needed for its deployment story. 

So I follow the instructions:

gem install passenger

When I did this my slice just hung indefinitely. It turns out that when gem updates the index of ruby gems, it downloads the entire index and puts it in memory, and this didn't fit in my tiny 256m I had on my slice. This thread ended up saving the day for me. I was able to do:

gem install passenger -B 1000000

it was slow but it worked.

Next up was installing the apache2 module:

passenger-install-apache2-module

First, it failed to find my apache2 installation and asked my to install it. I told it where it was by doing:

export APXS2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs

Next, it didn't find the Apache Portable Runtime(APR). I told it where it was by doing:

export APR_CONFIG=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apr-1-config

Then, it didn't find the APU(whatever that is, I stopped caring). I did:

export APU_CONFIG=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apu-1-config

After all that, and running passenger-install-apache2-module again, it worked! 

Next I setup the virtual host entries. I created the file /usr/local/apache2/conf/apps/tobyho.conf with these contents:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	
        ServerName tobyho.com
	
        DocumentRoot /var/www/apps/mywiki/public
	
        <Directory "/var/www/apps/mywiki/public">
	
                Options FollowSymLinks
	
                AllowOverride None
	
                Order allow,deny
	
                Allow from all
	
        </Directory>
	
</VirtualHost>
	

And now I got the wiki running on mod_rails. Yea!

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