From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2004-12-17T03:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Apache2, FastCGI and Rails on Windows

Kent Sibilev wrote:
> I'm running my rails application on the same environment and it works 
> fine. Make sure your application doesn't raise any exceptions and dies 
> killing the communication pipe.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kent.
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Williams, Chris wrote:
> 
>> I've been running around in circles trying to enable FastCGI on my rails
>> install.
>>
>> I've modified my http.conf to load the fastcgi module and add it as the
>> handler for .fcgi
>> I've modified my .htaccess to redirect to dispatch.fcgi, and that is
>> working.
>>
>> What happens is that Rails throws back the 500 page with an error, and
>> Apache's error log show's the following:
>>
>>  [Tue Dec 14 12:56:09 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" started (pid 1636)
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 109)The pipe
>> has been ended.  : FastCGI: comm with server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted: GetOverlappedResult() failed
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 1636) terminated with exit with
>> status '1'
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI:
>> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:11 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not
>> exist: C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/favicon.ico
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:14 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 2472)
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:16 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 2472) terminated with exit with
>> status '1'
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:19 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 3652)
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:20 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 3652) terminated with exit with
>> status '1'
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:24 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" restarted (pid 2120)
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:26 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" (pid 2120) terminated with exit with
>> status '1'
>> [Tue Dec 14 12:56:26 2004] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
>> "C:/epc/blog/public/dispatch.fcgi" has failed to remain running for 30
>> seconds given 3 attempts, its restart interval has been backed off to
>> 600 seconds
>>
>> It seems to be unable to communicate over the default pipe. Has anyone
>> managed to get this working? What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
How do you test if fastcgi is working? I know that the apache loaded the 
  fastcgi modules correctly. Now, how do you configure fastcgi in 
Apache2 so it will work with ruby. Using just standard cgi, I can run 
ruby.cgi with no probs, except the startup time a bit longer than usual.

Thanks.