From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-07-27T19:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't get rails to work

Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> Just trying to do the simple examples seen in both the tutorial and video.
> 
> But when I try to access my newly created controller
> (./scripts/new_controller Foo) in the browser by accessing
> 'http://rails/foo/' I get this:
> 
> /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:32:in
> `rescue_errors': undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
>         from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/../vendor/railties/../../vendor/railties/dispatcher.rb:14:in
> `initialize'
>         from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5:in `new'
>         from /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi:5
> [Tue Jul 27 02:00:06 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/fredde/projects/ruby/rails/public/dispatch.cgi
> 
> For some reason 'ActionController::Base.logger' is nil. I don't see
> anywhere it is initialized either so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Check the permissions on your log directory and log file and make sure 
that the www-data user (or whatever apache runs as) can write to those 
directories.

This stymied me for a while as well.

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