Problem with images on Apache and Lighttpd

Rails
1

Hello.

Since two days I am trying to set up two rails-apps on a vserver-host so
that I can access from work :wink:
I tried all I can imagine and what Google/MSN teached me: FastCGI, SCGI,
Lighttpd, Apache, Alias, Vhosts,…
But nothing really works. I am on Debian 3.1 with Ruby 1.8.4, Rails
1.1.2, FastCGI 2.4.0, mod_fastcgi 2.4.2, ruby_fcgi 0.8.6, ruby_gems
0.8.11, Apache 2.0.54, Lighttpd 1.4.11

At last I was really near my favorite solution. So that I can reach:
http://my.server.net/BlackJax
http://my.server.net/tracks

But both Apache AND Lighttpd showed the same problem: Images (and
partly) Stylesheets are not shown. The technique as such works fine.
Interesting: Both show the same errors (example from lighttpd-log,
apache shows the equivalent):
2006-06-04 20:57:10: (response.c.451) – handling physical path
2006-06-04 20:57:10: (response.c.452) Path :
/var/www/images/deck/2d.gif
2006-06-04 20:57:10: (response.c.492) – file not found

I am using Fastcgi/Fcgid while getting this error, SCGI seemed even
messier to me (I only tried SCGI with Apache). For whatever reason it
seems that images are not taken from the (i.e.)
/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/public-folder, but from the servers doc-root.
btw: I did not miss to put
ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = “/Blackjax”
at the end of environment.rb, I also checked .htaccess

Here the important part of my lighttp.conf:

server.port = 80
server.modules = (“mod_alias”, “mod_rewrite”,
“mod_accesslog”, “mod_fastcgi” )
server.document-root = “/var/www/”
url.rewrite = ( “^/$” => “index.html”, “^([^.]+)$” =>
“$1.html” )

$HTTP[“url”] =~ “^/BlackJax” {
server.document-root = “/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/public/”
alias.url = ( “/BlackJax” => “/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/public” )
server.error-handler-404 = “/dispatch.fcgi”
server.errorlog =
“/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/log/lighttpd.error.log”
accesslog.filename =
“/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/log/lighttpd.access.log”
server.indexfiles = ( “dispatch.fcgi”, “index.html” )

fastcgi.server = ( “.fcgi” =>
((
“socket” => “/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/log/code.socket”,
“min-procs” => 2,
“max-procs” => 2,
“bin-path” => “/opt/railsapps/BlackJax/public/dispatch.fcgi”,
“bin-environment” => ( “RAILS_ENV” => “development” )
)))
}

And here the important part of my http.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
FastCgiServer /var/www/BlackJax/public/dispatch.fcgi -initial-env
RAILS_ENV=development -processes 1 -idle-timeout 60
VirtualHost *>
ServerName my.server.net
DocumentRoot /var/www/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/BlackJax/public
RewriteRule ^/BlackJax(/.*)?$ /BlackJax/public$1
<Directory /var/www/BlackJax/public/>
#ErrorLog /var/www/BlackJax/log/error.log
#CustomLog /var/www/BlackJax/log/access.log combined
SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
Order allow,deny

I also tried to take away the rewrite-directives, but without success. I
am lost now… The only solution I can see would be to start two
lighttpd on different ports, cause that works :frowning:

any help is appreciated!

Best regards,

hans-dampf

2

Does nobody have an idea?

Thanks in advance

Hans Dampf