This article is part of a series on Installing a ruby on rails application using phusion passenger on ubuntu on slicehost .

Installing mod_rails

Follow the instructions mentioned here to install mod_rails and to install your application.

This article links to another article describing how to setup your rails application to mod_rails. The process suggested in this article works fine as long as you have setup only one domain. If you have more than one domain then things fall apart. For example I had www.neeraj.name and www.pageaxis.com and I ran into trouble. Only one domain was working. To get around to that problem follow the instruction mentioned below.

First make sure that you have enabled anysite by command

 
sudo a2ensite testapp

then remove that by executing following command

 
sudo a2dissite testapp

Now go and take a look at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled . This directory should be empty.

 
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# go to the bottom of this file and add following lines

NameVirtualHost 67.207.136.195:80

<VirtualHost 67.207.136.195:80>
ServerName pageaxis.com
ServerAlias www.pageaxis.com
DocumentRoot /home/neeraj/apps/pageaxis/current/public
#RailsEnv development
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 67.207.136.195:80>
ServerName neeraj.name
ServerAlias www.neeraj.name
DocumentRoot /home/neeraj/apps/rollmyblog/current/public
</VirtualHost>

Make sure that you replace 67.207.136.195 by the ip address of your slice box.