In one of our previous tutorials, we have shown how you can install Ruby on Rails with Nginx and Passenger on a Debian VPS. In this article we will show you how to install Ruby on Rails with Apache and Passenger on a CentOS VPS.
Firts, lets create a new sudo user
adduser newUser passwd newUser usermod -G wheel newUser
Run visudo and uncomment the following line
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Switch to the new user
su newUser
Update the system and install apache
sudo yum -y update sudo yum -y install curl curl-devel httpd-devel httpd mod_ssl
Install the latest Ruby version using RVM
sudo curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
To verify everything is done correctly, use the command “ruby -v”.
The output should be similar to the following:
# ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [i686-linux]
Install Rails and Passenger
gem install rails passenger
Install Passenger for Apache
rvmsudo passenger-install-apache2-module
After finishing, the installer will print a message similar to the following:
LoadModule passenger_module /home/newUser/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/passenger-4.0.10/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /home/newUser/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/passenger-4.0.10 PassengerDefaultRuby /home/newUser/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p247/ruby
Create a new passenger.conf file with the lines above.
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf
Create a directory for your rails application
mkdir -p ~/my_rails_app
Create a new virtual host for your application.
Open the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and uncomment the following line
NameVirtualHost *:80
At the end of the file, add
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /home/newUser/my_rails_app/public <Directory /home/newUser/my_rails_app/public> AllowOverride all Options -MultiViews </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/my_rails_app_error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/my_rails_app_access.log common </VirtualHost>
Restart apache for the changes to take effect
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux VPS Hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert linux admins to install this for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.
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