Installing Ruby on Rails along with Passenger on a cPanel server...

Hello,

I have been trying to install Passenger alongside Ruby and Rails on a brand new cPanel server running on VMware.

The installation of Ruby Version Manager along with Ruby and Rails was very straightforward.

My issue comes when trying to run the passenger-install-apache2-module. I get errors about the following required software:

* Checking for Apache 2 development headers...

Found: no

* Checking for Apache Portable Runtime (APR) development headers...

Found: no

* Checking for Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APU) development headers...

Found: no

My understanding is these are installed via cPanel but the installer just doesn't know where they are.

Would you be able to assist me with resolving the above errors at all please? This is the last stumbling block.


Many Thanks

Nick,

May be this will help you ... it has an full explanation. Just let me know if this works.

http://thecpaneladmin.com/installing-ruby-on-rails-passenger-cpanel-server/

This appears passenger looks in /home/<username>/.gem/ruby as a part of its spawn process. If /home/<username> doesn't exist (like with system users that don't have home directories), you get this error.