I am struggeling to get my rails 3.2 app running on a nginx - passenger - ruby 1.9.3 setup.
here is what I already did:
installed passenger gem
installed rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module
I added this to my nginx conf at /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
server {
listen 80;
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_spawn_method smart;
rails_env staging;
root /var/rails/current/public;
}
I deployed via Capistrano and everything seems to be deployed correctly. I had some issues (database.yml couldn't be found) on first try and the passenger exception page appeared so I guess passenger is running.
Passenger exception page also shows up if there is an error within a model so passenger seems to have access to all of the code.
After I fixed this it seems like the Rails app is not booting up. The staging.log stays empty and calls to my domain end up with a HTTP 504 error after a few minutes.
Static error pages within the rails public directory like http://mydomain.com/500.html are served without problems.
What can be the reason for this behavior? Are there passenger / nginx log files I can check?
Update: I am running all this on a EC2 Ubuntu instance - maybe this is important.
Thanks!
NOTE: this is a direct duplicate of this question on stackoverflow.com. I am new to serverfault but i guess this is the better place for this question - so feel free to vote for delete on stackoverflow.com.
