I'm trying to build a docker-image with running apache (+passenger), rails and shibboleth.
Unfortunately I can't get apache + passenger running ... I appreciate every hint! Maybe it is a permission problem? Everything was installed as root, but obviously some processes are running as nobody (as shown in the error log).
My docker base-image is "ruby:2.0.0" (debian 8). In this image I installed apache2, apache2-threaded-dev, libapr1-dev, libaprutil1-dev via apt-get and passenger via 'gem install passenger -v 4.0.59'. After this I used passenger-install-apache2-module to install the module.
Here is the error log:
cannot load such file -- bundler/setup (LoadError)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb:411:in `activate_gem'
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb:295:in `block in run_load_path_setup_code'
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb:416:in `running_bundler'
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/loader_shared_helpers.rb:294:in `run_load_path_setup_code'
/usr/share/passenger/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:99:in `preload_app'
/usr/share/passenger/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:153:in `<module:App>'
/usr/share/passenger/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:29:in `<module:PhusionPassenger>'
/usr/share/passenger/helper-scripts/rack-preloader.rb:28:in `<main>'
Environment (value of RAILS_ENV, RACK_ENV, WSGI_ENV, NODE_ENV and PASSENGER_APP_ENV)
development
Ruby interpreter command
/usr/local/bin/ruby
User and groups
uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
Apache passenger.load:
LoadModule passenger_module /usr/local/bundle/gems/passenger-4.0.59/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
Apache passenger.conf:
IfModule mod_passenger.c>
PassengerRoot /usr/local/bundle/gems/passenger-4.0.59
PassengerDefaultRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby
</IfModule>
And myapp.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
#ServerName yourserver.com
# Tell Apache and Passenger where your app's 'public' directory is
DocumentRoot /var/www/myapp/public
PassengerRuby /usr/local/bin/ruby
RailsEnv development
# Relax Apache security settings
<Directory /var/www/myapp/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
# Uncomment this if you're on Apache >= 2.4:
Require all granted
</Directory>
Installed versions:
apache2 -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p645 (2015-04-13 revision 50299)
gem -v
2.0.14
rails -v
Rails 4.0.5
passenger-config validate-install says "Everything looks good". And 'passenger-status':
Version : 4.0.59
Date : 2015-10-13 09:03:32 +0000
Instance: 5578
----------- General information -----------
Max pool size : 6
Processes : 0
Requests in top-level queue : 0
----------- Application groups -----------
/var/www/myapp#default:
App root: /var/www/myapp
Requests in queue: 0
passenger-memory-stats:
Version: 4.0.59
Date : 2015-10-13 09:05:31 +0000
--------- Apache processes ---------
PID PPID VMSize Private Name
------------------------------------
5578 1 83.2 MB ? /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
5599 5578 363.5 MB ? /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
5600 5578 491.5 MB ? /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
### Processes: 3
### Total private dirty RSS: 0.00 MB (?)
-------- Nginx processes --------
### Processes: 0
### Total private dirty RSS: 0.00 MB
---- Passenger processes -----
PID VMSize Private Name
------------------------------
5581 218.3 MB ? PassengerWatchdog
5584 564.5 MB ? PassengerHelperAgent
5590 217.8 MB ? PassengerLoggingAgent
### Processes: 3
### Total private dirty RSS: 0.00 MB (?)
All running processes:
ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 20300 1780 ? Ss 08:47 0:00 bash
root 6077 0.0 0.0 85160 3208 ? Ss 09:11 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root 6080 0.0 0.0 223500 2044 ? Ssl 09:11 0:00 PassengerWatchdog
root 6083 0.0 0.0 578092 5556 ? Sl 09:11 0:00 PassengerHelperAgent
nobody 6089 0.0 0.0 223028 5008 ? Sl 09:11 0:00 PassengerLoggingAgent
www-data 6098 0.0 0.0 437788 5452 ? Sl 09:11 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 6099 0.0 0.0 437780 5300 ? Sl 09:11 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
EDIT After 2 days searching and trying I found a solution (right after I post here my question ...):
I have to put this into my apache virtual host configuration of my app:
SetEnv GEM_HOME /usr/local/bundle
This solution was postet on https://stackoverflow.com/a/19099768/4846489
I don't know why this is necessary, because I don't have a previous installation (as stated there). This is really strange, because this environment variable is already there if I login into my docker container (docker exec -u nobody)...
Setting GEM_HOME just patches over the real problem. This information here is your hint:
User and groups:
id=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
Passenger is trying to run your app as the user 'nobody'. Most likely, this is not what you meant it to do. Your gem bundle is probably installed by a different user, and the 'nobody' user probably does not have access to that installed gem bundle.
Why is Passenger running your app as 'nobody'? Because of user sandboxing rules, most likely caused by wrong permissions on your app. You should fix that.
By the way, why are you building your own Docker image? Phusion provides its own passenger-docker base image.