From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2005-12-23T07:23:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Lighttpd/rails deployment error


On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:05 PM, phil swenson wrote:

> I have been trying to get Lighttpd working.... we have been using
> webrick, but want to move to a production quality web server.  I
> followed the instructions found here :
> http://brainspl.at/pages/rails_stack
>
>
> We are developing on windows and deploying to Fedora Linux.  We're  
> using
> rails 1.0.  The build actually happens on the windows box and using  
> ant
> transfers the code to the Linux box.  If I manually copy the code from
> the Windows box to the deployment box, Lighttpd works fine.   
> However if
> I use the ant task deploy it (which just SCPs the code), it fails.   
> Here
> is the error I get when I run ruby script/server:
>
> => Booting lighttpd (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
> Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that
> script/../config/../log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666. The
> log level has been raised to WARN and the output directed to STDERR
> until the problem is fixed.
> => Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
> => Call with -d to detach (requires absolute paths in
> config/lighttpd.conf)
> => Ctrl-C to shutdown server (see config/lighttpd.conf for options)
> 2005-12-22 17:02:34: (mod_accesslog.c.512) opening access-log failed:
> Permission denied log/lighttpd.access.log
> 2005-12-22 17:02:34: (server.c.670) Configuration of plugins failed.
> Going down.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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>

Phil-

	It looks like a plain old permissions error. Can you go ahead and  
use your ant task to move things to linux and then chmod the log  
files to be read/writable by the user that you run lighttpd as? Try  
that and report back with your findings and I'll help you debug.

-Ezra