Deployed rails site on ec2 using capistrano, but it doesn't show up on the browser, here is the site -> http://passionate4.net/

Question

I am using apache passenger to deploy rails application.

I have followed each and every step clearly and everything works fine. No error message in deployment.

Answer 1

I placed the application at this particular location var/www/myapplication.

This resolved the error "Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible". I will put all the steps I took to resolve this issue.

In addition to this i'll also blog on how to resolve errors involved with first time deployment of rails 3.1 to ec2. here ->
http://recipe4developer.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/correcting-errors-in-first-time-rails-3-1-deployment-to-ec2/

Answer 2

Is there a reason you're not using Heroku? You get EC2 with very easy deployment.

Answer 3

Make sure that your vhost lives somewhere in /etc/apache2/sites-available, and then make sure to add it to apache, either by using the a2ensite command, or by manually symlinking /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your_vhost_name_here to whatever you called the site.

Possible commands to enable the site (use either one):

sudo a2ensite your_vhost_name

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/your_vhost_name /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

After you've done this, make sure to reload apache, by running the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart