Gems

My gems are installed in my user folder:

INSTALLATION DIRECTORY:

• ~/.gem/ruby/1.8

GEM PATHS:

• ~/.gem/ruby/1.8
• /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

In my public_html/sinatra_app/.htaccess

# Phusion Passenger Start
PassengerEnabled on
PassengerAppRoot ~/public_html/sinatra_app
RackBaseURI /sinatra_app
# Phusion Passenger End

My sinatra_app folder consists of

app.rb
config.ru
public/
tmp/

Getting my gems into the sinatra environment requires 2 lines in the config.ru file

ENV['GEM_HOME'] = '~/.gem/ruby/1.8'
ENV['GEM_PATH'] = '~/.gem/ruby/1.8:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'app'
run Sinatra::Application

My app.rb looks like

get '/' do
  "Hello World #{Time.now.utc} #{params.inspect}"

end

A few days later I was writing a 2nd rails app and noticed a Wordpress 404 error whenever I asked for a route other than the root URL. I tried my original rails app and it was broken also. I hadn’t touched a thing.

After a chat session with Site5 support (awesome response), it wasn’t resolved. Their level 1 support said it was my .htaccess file, and provided no other help (poor response).

After opening a ticket myself and providing them my .htaccess, environment.rb and symlink they again said it was my .htaccess file, but this time it was my public_html .htaccess file that was wrong. But still no other url or hint.

Turns out my public_html .htaccess file has some wordpress rewrite rules in it. I needed to exclude the rails subdirectories so that wordpress wouldn’t see them.

Here’s what I added to my public_html .htaccess
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/rails_app_name/

Things were going well but I got stuck on the public key portion. The rest of this is what I did to complete the configuration:
Followed the steps in the github for adding public keys

My first problem was this error when I tried to git push

Permission denied (publickey).


I had to follow these steps to generate my public key correctly

ssh-agent /bin/bash
ssh-add (without the .pub)


Now I could push to github.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Resolution:

This post in the Site 5 forums lists the correct folder and file permissions.

I set the permissions for wpremix folder to 755 and files to 644. Problem solved.