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Here's my setup: I have an apache server running a number of virtual hosts, each of them using PHP. I now have a rails app I want to install to a subdirectory for one of the sites (a subdomain would be adequate as a fall-back).

From what I've read so far, as soon as I install libapache2-mod-passenger all the sites by default will use passenger rather than PHP. Is there a way around this, barring setting a PassengerEnabled off directive in each site config file?

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  • You are misunderstanding the way Apache deals with preprocessor/executable-code modules. PHP will be interpreted by the module designated to handle PHP scripts. Passenger/Ruby applications must be explicitly configured (all requests for the specified directory is handed over to Passenger). If you do not explicitly configure a directory to be handled through Passenger it is handled according to the remainder of your Apache configuration. Commented Feb 18, 2013 at 19:46
  • there seems to be a lot of conflicting information on this, with many articles claiming that PHP gets uninstalled when passenger is installed. Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 8:15
  • I'm not sure where the people writing those articles are getting their information - there is nothing mutually exclusive about the two technologies (I have production servers with PHP, Passenger, and mod_perl all coexisting). Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 16:31

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As per these instructions, I installed passenger as a gem. The instructions omitted the need to run passenger-install-apache2-module which basically walked me through the entire process.

With this setup, PHP is untouched, and Rails apps can even be configured to run in subfolders within a PHP site.

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