Virtualhost setup for Ruby on Rails application (mod passenger)

Question

I'm trying to install Redmine under apache. The apache server works on a local network. My apache setup consist on a single virtual host. I can get insto different directories using simply the path corresponding:

http://ip_address/folder_of_the_project_1

How can I setup the virtualhost to make redmine works in this situation? Here is my current virtualhost setup:

NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/ RailsBaseURI /redmine <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/redmine/public> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature On Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> 

Thank you, Ingo86

Answer 1

Point DocumentRoot at your Redmine public directory, and RailsBaseURI to point at /.

Here's an example from my working Ubuntu server:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName redmine.int.example.com ServerAlias redmine DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public RailsBaseURI / RailsEnv production PassengerMaxPoolSize 4 <Directory /var/www/redmine/public> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> LogLevel info ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/redmine-error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/redmine-access.log combined </VirtualHost> 

Answer 2

Did you try RailsBaseURI /redmine/public instead of RailsBaseURI /redmine? just in case.

Answer 3

Someone suggested pointing the DocumentRoot to the root of redmine directory as this:

NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName golem.it DocumentRoot "/var/www/redmine/public" <Directory /var/www/redmine/public> AllowOverride all Options -MultiViews </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

the above of course works however it does neither answer the specific question asked neither does it give a general solution which doesn't require stealing the documentroot completely from other applications.

The solution I found requires to create a symlink to /var/www/redmine-2.2/public named redmines (notice it is not redmine but redmines due to a possible Passenger naming bug!), the solution is shown below (ignore the ssl part):

NameVirtualHost *:443 <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName golem.it DocumentRoot "/var/www" Options +Indexes Options +ExecCGI <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> PassengerAppRoot /var/www/redmine-2.2 RailsBaseURI /redmines Alias /redmine /var/www/redmines <Directory /var/www/redmines> AllowOverride All Options -MultiViews </Directory> SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/dwewe.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/wefew.key SSLCACertificateFile /etc/apache2/wefer/ca.crt SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL </VirtualHost>