[Catalyst] Re: Deploying with apache/fastcgi

[David Schmidt]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM, David Schmidt <davewood at gmx.at> wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I followed the deployment instructions in the cat book to run my app
> on apache2 with fastcgi. I do get a 500 internal error msg and the
> appache error log says:
>
> [Sat Dec 19 10:25:47 2009] [error] [client 78.142.165.159] FastCGI:
> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
> "/var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl"
>
> I copied the apache config from another cat app (I cant get ahold of
> the other developer but will report back here once I talked to him)
> that is running smoothly already and checked against the cat book.
>
> I installed apache2/fastcgi through the debian package system with
> aptitude install apache2 libapache2-mod-fastcgi
>
> Here is my apache2 config:
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>    ServerName myapp.at
>    ServerAdmin david at myapp.at
>
>    DocumentRoot /var/www/MyApp/root/
>    <Directory /var/www/MyApp/root/>
>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>        AllowOverride None
>        Order allow,deny
>        allow from all
>    </Directory>
>
>   Alias /static /var/www/MyApp/root/static
>
>   FastCgiServer /var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl -processes 3
>   Alias / /var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl/
>
>    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/myapp.at.error.log
>
>    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
>    # alert, emerg.
>    LogLevel warn
>
>    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/myapp.at.access.log combined
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> david
>

t0m helped me out once again:

t0m: what happens when you say sudo -u www-data
/var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl

turns out FCGI.pm wasnt installed

thanks alot

david