I'm attempting to deploy a small rails app w/ sqlite3 to a micro AWS EC2 CentOS 6 instance using capistrano (after not having much success with nginx & passenger). I follow this site to deploy my app
https://mattbrictson.com/build-and-deploy-a-rails-vps-part-2
and the deploy is a success but the AWS instance DNS is responding with page isn’t working and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE. What's weird is when I navigate to my DNS the console says Navigated to data:text/html,chromewebdata which is not right. I tried Googling the problem but not many had similar problems. It's difficult to track this when the deployer was a success when I ran bundle exec cap production deploy from my mac (not inside AWS server) and there were no errors. Does anyone have a similar problem and know a fix for this silent deployment problem?
I deployed the app as a deployer user at /var/www/texter/ path and the user has access to this folder inside the AWS ec2 instance.
Port 80 and 8080 are open in my AWS security group setting so I don't think that's a problem either. I tell my firewall to accept the port 8080 and 80 with this command (correct me if I'm wrong) below but that didn't do anything.
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Here is what I did to set up the server as a deployer user, which is standard for a rails app:
sudo yum install -y git-core zlib zlib-devel gcc-c++ patch readline readline-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel make bzip2 autoconf automake libtool bison curl sqlite-devel
# preparring rbenv, ruby, rails, nodejs
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
rbenv install -v 2.1.0
rbenv global 2.1.0
echo "gem: --no-document" > ~/.gemrc
gem install bundler
gem install rails -v 4.2.6 -V
rbenv rehash
sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum install nodejs
after that I set up my rails with capistrano with these content in the config/deploy.rb, Capfile, /config/deploy/production.rb (all of them are same as the tutorial link I posted above but posting for reference).
inside config/deploy.rb
set :application, "texter"
set :repo_url, "my_github_repo"
set :linked_dirs, %w(
bin log vendor/bundle public/system
tmp/pids tmp/cache tmp/sockets
)
set :puma_bind, "tcp://0.0.0.0:8080"
Capfile
# Load DSL and set up stages
require "capistrano/setup"
# Include default deployment tasks
require "capistrano/deploy"
# Include tasks from other gems included in your Gemfile
#
# For documentation on these, see for example:
#
# https://github.com/capistrano/rvm
# https://github.com/capistrano/rbenv
# https://github.com/capistrano/chruby
# https://github.com/capistrano/bundler
# https://github.com/capistrano/rails
# https://github.com/capistrano/passenger
#
# require 'capistrano/rvm'
# require 'capistrano/rbenv'
# require 'capistrano/chruby'
require 'capistrano/bundler'
require 'capistrano/rails/assets'
require 'capistrano/rails/migrations'
require "capistrano/puma"
# require 'capistrano/passenger'
# Load custom tasks from `lib/capistrano/tasks` if you have any defined
Dir.glob("lib/capistrano/tasks/*.rake").each { |r| import r }
for my content in /config/deploy/production.rb:
server "PUBLIC-IP-FROM-AWS",
:user => "deployer",
:roles => %w(web app db)
