have redmine running on apache2 with passenger

Question

I am trying to have redmine running on my Ubuntu 12.04 / Apache/2.2.22 server. I am following this documentation which worked just fine on my laptop, but can't get it to work on my aws webserver. I'm guessing the problem is with apache because I simply get a 404 error when trying to reach the page www.mydomain.com/redmine

I followed the doc step by step but won't work. I'm not very familiar with VHost config so could anyone tell if there is anything wrong with mine:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName www.yourownpoet.com DocumentRoot /var/www/yourownpoet/web <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/yourownpoet/web> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All 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 ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.prod.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.prod.log combined <IfModule mod_userdir.c> UserDir html/yourownpoet/web </IfModule> <Directory /home/ubuntu/html/yourownpoet/web> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Limit> <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS> Order deny,allow Deny from all </LimitExcept> </Directory> <Directory /var/www/redmine> RailsBaseURI /redmine PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

PS: I created the symlink to the redmine public directory in my DocumentRoot folder:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/redmine/public /var/www/yourownpoet/web 

Is that correct?

Answer 1

Problem solved!

The issue was that I had a rewrite rule set in my .htaccess in the DocumentRoot folder. This rule is necessary for running my Symfony2 website, but was messing with redmine.

I had to specifically turn off the RewriteEngine for redmine in the virtualhost configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName www.yourownpoet.com DocumentRoot /var/www/yourownpoet/web <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/yourownpoet/web> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /app.php [QSA,L] </IfModule> </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> 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 ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.prod.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.prod.log combined <IfModule mod_userdir.c> UserDir html/yourownpoet/web </IfModule> <Directory /home/ubuntu/html/yourownpoet/web> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec <Limit GET POST OPTIONS> Order allow,deny Allow from all </LimitExcept> </Directory> <Directory /var/www/yourownpoet/web/redmine> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine off </IfModule> RailsBaseURI /redmine PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

Hope this helps.